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Re: (ITS#7424) Accept patch? Add option for not folding ldapsearch LDIF output lines



No such option in OpenLDAP 2.4.23 as delivered with RHEL 6.

man ldapsearch shows the only general option documented
is nettimeout

??

On 10/28/2012 3:45 PM, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> Use ldapsearch -o ldif-wrap=no instead.
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> p.
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>> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>> Submission from: (NULL) (96.228.233.77)
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>> RFC 2849 states:
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>>        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?
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