Re: ldapsearch

[Simon Murcott <simonmu@optimation.co.nz>]

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/'
   
Yes, use the perl "Net::LDAPapi" module and make a perl ldap search and use
printf's to format it exactly how you want.

I have a small script that does a search similar to the way outlook does and
returns the results in a kind of tabular form. Let me know if you want it.   

Regards

Simon Murcott

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