Hi group,<br><br>I&#39;ve a question about deleting the hierarchy tree using the Fedora DS provided command line utilities (e.g. ldapdelete, ldapsearch, ldapmodify and etc).<br><br>Originally, I&#39;m using the &quot;ldapdelete&quot; command from the openldapclient package with the &quot;-r&quot; flag to do recursive delete on the hierarchy tree, but I want to know if there&#39;s anyway I can achieve the same effect by using command line utilities from the Fedora DS package.<br>
<br>My original thought is to use ldapsearch, set it to return only the &quot;dn&quot; attribute and sorted by &quot;createtimestamp&quot; attribute.&nbsp; Then use the returned result and run the ldapdelete command.&nbsp; Assuming a child entry must have a later &quot;createtimestamp&quot; then parent entry.&nbsp; However, the result returned back from ldapsearch is in ascending order of the &quot;createtimestamp&quot; attribute.<br>
<br>Is there a way to tell the ldapsearch command to sort returned result in descending order?&nbsp; or<br>Is there a more efficient way to delete a hierarchy tree through command line?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>David<br>