in reply to fixing broken ldif files (replacing = with : )

Try this 

perl -000 -pe"s[(^\w+)=][$1: ]mg" ldif.bad >ldif.good

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Re^2: fixing broken ldif files (replacing = with : )
by riffraff (Pilgrim) on Dec 10, 2004 at 02:09 UTC
    Or an even simpler solution, not using perl: 

    sed -e 's/=/: /' ldif.bad > ldif.good

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