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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to print range of lines using sed when pattern has special character "[" Post 302419021 by clx on Thursday 6th of May 2010 04:13:54 AM
Old 05-06-2010
"[" and "]" are the part of regular expressions. You must have to escape their special meaning. one way is to use another (modified) variable.

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LDBSEARCH(1)							   User Commands						      LDBSEARCH(1)

NAME
ldbsearch - Search for records in a LDB database SYNOPSIS
ldbsearch [-h] [-s base|one|sub] [-b basedn] [-i] [-H LDB-URL] [expression] [attributes] DESCRIPTION
ldbsearch searches a LDB database for records matching the specified expression (see the ldapsearch(1) manpage for a description of the expression format). For each record, the specified attributes are printed. OPTIONS
-h Show list of available options. -H <ldb-url> LDB URL to connect to. See ldb(7) for details. -s one|sub|base Search scope to use. One-level, subtree or base. -i Read search expressions from stdin. -b basedn Specify Base DN to use. ENVIRONMENT
LDB_URL LDB URL to connect to (can be overrided by using the -H command-line option.) VERSION
This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite. SEE ALSO
ldb(7), ldbedit(1) AUTHOR
ldb was written by Andrew Tridgell. If you wish to report a problem or make a suggestion then please see the : http://ldb.samba.org/ web site for current contact and maintainer information. This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij. Samba 3.5 06/18/2010 LDBSEARCH(1)
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