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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Ldapsearch using variable will not work Post 302983916 by who10 on Tuesday 18th of October 2016 12:06:45 PM
Old 10-18-2016
I created both .txt files using VI and yes, the search works perfectly fine if I enter the adgroup manually.

I created a new script in an attempt to isolate the problem area and have discovered that the "while read..." portion of the script seems to be causing the issue. If I take it out and modify the script slightly to build a portion of my ldapsearch string as shown below, I get good results in my input.txt file.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
 adgroup='ab_abc'
 var='cn='$adgroup
echo $var
var1=$var',ou=Resource,ou=groups,dc=abc,dc=somecompany,dc=com'
echo $var1
 ldapsearch -x -LLL -E pr=200/noprompt -o ldif-wrap=no -h abc-loc.somecompany.com -D "account@somecompany.com" -w password -b $var1 \
| grep member | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g' > /userid/bin/input.txt

It seems that maybe I'm using "while read" incorrectly as it cannot read and set my adgroup variable in a way that any function within the while read loop can interprate it.
 

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