Full_Name: Alexey Version: 2.4.15 (LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20415) OS: Debian GNU/Linux URL: http://bugreport.udmvt.ru/attachment/ldapsearch-ttt.patch Submission from: (NULL) (78.85.1.13)

Good day, everyone. ldapsearch have such important (mis)feature, like output format conforming to LDIF standard in some or other way. You should already know, that line length in LDIF-output is limited to 76 characters and if line is larger, it is wrapped with space-padding. Also output is sometimes base64 encoded, based on it's "printability". Printability is tested, using single-byte functions, like isgraph(), but when values is multibyte encoded with UTF-8, that sometimes produce random results.

That together makes ldapsearch very script-unfriendly and here is why: to limit randomness in output's encoding, one would use -tt switch to always write field values to files and then use some simple script to parse the output and substitute file urls with their contents. But here comes to play line length limit, that will sometimes wrap urls for fields with long names (that is common for AD). Here is example: msExchHomeServerName:< file:///tmp/ldapsearch-msExchHomeServerName-ZhHdx2 msExchMailboxSecurityDescriptor:< file:///tmp/ldapsearch-msExchMailboxSecurit yDescriptor-c4gGc1 msExchUserAccountControl:< file:///tmp/ldapsearch-msExchUserAccountControl-FM UbSZ msExchMailboxGuid:< file:///tmp/ldapsearch-msExchMailboxGuid-6bLIxY End of example. That introduces extra unneeded complexity in otherwise simple script, since now it should parse LDIF, combine whole lines from broken ones, etc. Making it no longer an one-line script.

Since wrapping of -tt output is nonsense, but changing that may seem unfeasible for some of you, let me suggest additional option -ttt, that does the same as -tt, but without line wrapping (perhaps, violating some standard).

Patch is here, as your ITS asks: http://bugreport.udmvt.ru/attachment/ldapsearch-ttt.patch PS: manpage does not changed to reflect additional option

Thanks a lot.