Re: ldapsearch

[Allen Reese <allen@driversoft.com>]

I had a similiar problem.  I wanted ldapsearch to be run in a thread. So I
modified ldapsearch to take a cmd line option for an output file, and
removed a lot of the spurious newlines it outputs.

Allen Reese
Senior Software Engineer
Driversoft, Inc.
allen@driversoft.com
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 tcurdt@linux01.gwdg.de wrote:

> 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
> 
>