Hello guys,

Could someone tell me why the code below doesn't print? I tried modifying few times but getting the same result. It is supposed to read data from a backup file, run ldapsearch, print all needed IDs defined in the ldapsearch. Somehow it prints 0, though ldapsearch in my sample ldif file works fine. It is Solaris machine.

Any help appreciated

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code:

#!/bin/ksh
while read g
do
echo ""
ldapsearch -L -h localhost -p 5555 -D "uid=sm_admin,ou=abc_admin,o=abc.com" -w sm_passwd -b o=vz.com -s sub uid=$g
done < g.ldif > g_out.txt

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input file (g.ldif):

dn: uid=testID,ou=abc,o=abc.com
objectclass: top
objectclass: someuser
uid: testID

That script will run ldapsearch 4 times, once for each line in your g.ldif file. Any spaces etc in the input file will be treated as new commandline arguements to ldapsearch.

What's the commandline you use when it works fine?

Hi -

If you just run the ldapsearch for a single user id as;

ldapsearch -L -h localhost -p 5555 -D "uid=sm_admin,ou=abc_admin,o=abc.com" -w sm_passwd -b o=vz.com -s sub uid=xyz

It will work and print the ID info.

But what I want is to put this in a loop that will run thru the backup ldif file and print all user ids as specified in the ldapsearch.

Any help is appreciated.

what result you are looking for ?

- nilesh

Hi -

For example, the output could be the all dn value or just the uids:

such as:

dn: uid=testID1,ou=abc,o=abc.com
dn: uid=testID2,ou=abc,o=abc.com
dn: uid=testID3,ou=abc,o=abc.com
dn: uid=testID4,ou=abc,o=abc.com

or:

testID1
testID2
testID3
testID4

etc...

It should loop through the big backup file, 15+GB and print the values. Then I need to be able to FTP those. That will be automated and I am working on it. Hopefully I will resolve this why it isn't printing.