I like to use ldap query results in shells scripts. Something like: RESULT=`ldapsearch -b 'whatever' 'objectclass=Person' sn But the output format of the ldapsearch makes it necessary to use some more processing e.g. like: ldapsearch -b 'whatever' 'objectclass=Person' sn|tail -1|sed -e 's/.*=/\1/' ...but there MUST be a better way to these things!! Or are there any other tools available? -- Torsten