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. > > Is there any way to tell ldapsearch not to split lines (or does it > depends on server side?) AFAIK there is not. And if got RFC 2849 right, there is no need for splitting, so I would also appreciate an optional parameter. (A fourth "-L" might be good for that purpose or an numerical operator to specify custom wrapping)

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}'

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