I'm praying the monks will see through the windows command logic and see a great script that will properly build a changetype modify ldif file from data in 2 different files.

Here's the code that does not work to build an ldif import file. I have 2 files, line for line they match up. One file has all the DN's, the other file has the employeeNumber of each DN. I can't get the two FOR loops to iterate through 2 files one line at a time to build the correct ldif entry, and then proceed through both files iteratively until the last lines. 


@echo on

::Set BATCH Input Directory
set batchdir=e:\meta

::Set the input file containing the list
set infile=%batchdir%\DDNs3
set infile2=%batchdir%\DDNsUid2

::If exists, we remove output file
rm DDNs3.ldif

::For loop below process each line in the input list.

:uid
FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%i IN (%infile%) do (
echo dn: %%i
echo changetype: modify
echo replace: employeeNumber
call :loop2
)
goto :eof
:loop2
FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%k IN (%infile2%) do (
echo employeeNumber: %%k
echo.
call :uid
)

:eof

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In reply to building an ldif from 2 files by rfransix

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