Re: ldifsort.pl

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

Thanks, I have added it into the contrib directory

Graham.

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 01:46:24PM -0400, Kartik Subbarao wrote:
> Here's another tool I'd like to contribute to Net::LDAP. Attached to
> this message is ldifsort.pl, which sorts LDIF files by a specified key
> attribute. It's pretty fast -- orders of magnitude faster than
> server-side sorting in many cases. For example, it can sort a 300MB LDIF
> file (with approximately 160K entries) in about 3 minutes.
> 
> Examples:
> 
> To sort an LDIF file of people entries by cn:
> 
> ldifsort.pl -k cn people.ldif > people.sorted.ldif
> 
> To sort an LDIF file containing multiple types of entries by dn:
> 
> ldifsort.pl -k dn entries.ldif > entries.sorted.ldif
> 
> 
> Any feedback is appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>         -Kartik