[Fedora-directory-users] Unlimited line width for ldapsearch

[Wilmer Jaramillo M.]

On 7/30/07, Richard Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote:
> Wilmer Jaramillo M. wrote:
> > On 7/30/07, Howard Wilkinson <howard at cohtech.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  Wilmer Jaramillo M. wrote:
> >>    I found that ../shared/bin/ldasearch only show a output of 76 chars
> >> per line, and manual page not described how be longer the output, i
> >> want set the line-width used to implement filter in long strings 'OU'
> >> in perl scripts. Also i found a very simple patch for ldapsearch of
> >> openldap tools in:
> >> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-bugs/199912/msg00099.html
> >> openldap it does not have support still.
> >>
> >> Probably some method of Net::LDAP can do it, I'm investigating a
> >> module or regex that can help me in this, any suggestion? thanks.
> >>
> >>   Take a look at Net::LDAP::LDIF an option to new is called 'wrap' which is normally set to 78 (one space, 76 printing characters, and the newline for continuation lines) this should give you what you want.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I'm looking to replace  the following query to a Windows ADS for a
> > Perl sintax because the output is limited for line-width:
> > my $ldapsearch = "(ldapsearch - x - H ldap: To //$adserver - D "to
> > $aduser" - w $adpass - s sub - b "$baseDN"" (cn=*) '| grep - i "ou=" |
> > cut - d, - F2 | grep - v - i "CN= " | uniq)`
> >
> If you use the ldapsearch bundled with Fedora DS (cd
> /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin ; ./ldapsearch) rather than openldap
> /usr/bin/ldapsearch, you can use the -T option, which disables line
> wrapping, making it easier to pass the output to scripts such as
> grep/sed/awk/perl without using a separate LDIF parser.  The command
> line options are very similar, just omit the -x.

Excelent, it also now working for me. Thanks Richard and Howard.
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Wilmer Jaramillo M.
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