Not Good Enough » OpenLDAP http://www.notgoodenough.net The things that just aren't quite good enough... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:37:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ldapsearch and Line Width http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/49 http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/49#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:19:48 +0000 admin http://www.notgoodenough.net/?p=49 OpenLDAP is open source LDAP software. It’s used on a lot of Unix and Linux distributions. ldapsearch is a utility that comes with OpenLDAP. It allows you to search an LDAP directory from the command line. This is potentially very useful when you need to access LDAP from a shell script. You can even use it to access Active Directory, as Phil Lembo shows here.

Unfortunately, when ldapsearch returns its results it wraps the output after 76 characters – and it doesn’t appear to give an option to turn line wrapping off. Now what bright spark thought that this would be a good idea. That makes it a pain in the arse when you’re trying to grep the output of a directory search.

Someone does seem to have come up with a patch back in 1999, but it doesn’t appear to have made it into production.

It’s just not good enough!

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