Deleting A Specific Attribute Value Using Ldif - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

LDIF Update Statements
For example, the following LDIF update statement deletes all instances of the
telephonenumber
appears in the entry:
dn: cn=Barney Fife,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
changetype: modify
delete: telephonenumber
If you want to delete just a specific instance of the
you simply delete that specific attribute value. The following section describes how
to do this.

Deleting a Specific Attribute Value Using LDIF

Use
changetype:modify
from an entry.
For example, consider the following entry:
cn=Barney Fife,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
cn: Barney Fife
sn: Fife
telephonenumber: 555-1212
telephonenumber: 555-5678
To delete the 555-1212 telephone number from this entry, use the following LDIF
update statement:
dn: cn=Barney Fife,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
changetype: modify
delete: telephonenumber
telephonenumber: 555-1212
Barney's entry then becomes:
cn=Barney Fife,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
cn: Barney Fife
sn: Fife
telephonenumber: 555-5678
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attribute from the entry, regardless of how many times it
with the
delete
telephonenumber
operation to delete an attribute value
attribute, then