Use ldapsearch -o ldif-wrap=no instead.

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RFC 2849 states:

  2)  Any non-empty line, including comment lines, in an LDIF file
      MAY be folded by inserting a line separator (SEP) and a SPACE.
      Folding MUST NOT occur before the first character of the line.
      In other words, folding a line into two lines, the first of
      which is empty, is not permitted. Any line that begins with a
      single space MUST be treated as a continuation of the previous
      (non-empty) line. When joining folded lines, exactly one space
      character at the beginning of each continued line must be
      discarded. Implementations SHOULD NOT fold lines in the middle
      of a multi-byte UTF-8 character.

OpenLDAP (ldapsearch at least) has taken implemented that folding behavior for LDIF output.

This causes trouble for anyone trying to use 'ldapsearch | grep <something>' for one simple example.

Would you accept a patch to allow an option which disables line folding?