Re: make output of ldapsearch readable (disable base64)

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
>
> > It would hurt for e.g. 'jpegPhoto' or 'userCertificate;binary'.
>
> What about a flag to get a display a la hexdump -C when the data is not
> pure ASCII?

This won't help the original poster. He wants that ldapsearch outputs 
LDIF which he can read directly on the console (probably with 
LANG=cn_CN.UTF-8).

> ldapsearch -o output_style
> where output_style is:
> - ldif: ASCII strings in ASCII, and everything else in base64 (default)
> - hexdump: ASCII strings in ASCII, binary as hexdump -C
> - allhexdump: every attribute as hexdump
> - binary: every attribute as raw binary

At the moment I would not introduce other output formats than LDIF. The 
usefulness of hex-dumps in comparison to base64-encoded data is debatable.

The only thing I could imagine without making ldapsearch schema-aware is 
a command-line option defining which attributes to output as UTF-8. If 
the user specifies jpegPhoto for that he's on his own if the raw binary 
output messes up the terminal.

Ciao, Michael.