Replacing a character in a script [solved]

[ianw1974]

I have a script that is extracting some data from an old LDAP server, and creating an ldif file. The problem I have is the parameters on the new ldap server use a different format.

 

What I'm wanting to do, is replace a character, with another character. For example, this line:

 

mailAlternateAddress=

 

I want to replace the "=" with a ":" instead. How could I do this?

 

Here is the line that gets the data:

 

user_mailaltaddr=`./lds uid=$UUID mailAlternateAddress | grep -v uid= | grep -v version`

 

so what I'm wanting to do is find "mailAlternateAddress=" and change this to "mailAlternateAddress:"

[ianw1974]

I solved it.

 

I couldn't use it on the variable, so I got it to create the file normally, and then I just did:

 

sed 's/mailAlternateAddress=/mailAlternateAddress:/g' old.ldif > new.ldif

 

this then read the first file created, and created a new file with the amendments.

[ramfree17]

doesnt sed has an edit in place option?

 

ciao!

[ianw1974]

I've no idea, first time I used it today :P

 

This worked, so I'm not fussed, maybe I'll play with it a little later on.