Re: making ldapsearch not to split lines

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:44, Hai Zaar wrote:

I have bash script that does this: hostDN=( $(ldapsearch .... | grep '^dn' | cut -d ' ' -f 2) ) The problem is that if the 'dn' line is too long, ldapsearch splits it to several lines according to LDIF rules.

If I need to do something like this on the shell, I typically use something like:

ldapsearch|perl -p0e 's/\n //g'|awk -F: '/^dn/' '{print $2}'

Is there any way to tell ldapsearch not to split lines (or does it depends on server side?)

Not at present, some patches were proposed in some ITSs, but no agreement was reached on their usefulness (IIRC).

Regards, Buchan