Paolo Leano writes: > i could add a line: uid: testuid under the dn and it imports just fine > but the ldif file has at least 2000 entries. > is there an easier way to go about this. If it's just missing uids: perl -p00e '/^uid:/m || s/^(dn: uid=([^,\n]+).*\n)/$1uid: $2\n/m' <old >new -- Hallvard