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Old 05-18-2009
Awesome. The extra steps you took prompted me to study up on shell parameter expansion and printf formatting, which I now understand much better. Passing the arguments to the script during the initial execution of the script, and without read, is something I wouldnt have thought to do as well. I really learned a lot here.....thanks for taking the extra steps cfajohnson, I really appreciate it!
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slapcat

SLAPCAT(8C)															       SLAPCAT(8C)

NAME

       slapcat - SLAPD database to LDIF utility

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/slapcat [-v] [-c] [-d level] [-b suffix] [-n dbnum] [-f slapd.conf] [-l ldif-file]

DESCRIPTION

       Slapcat	is  used  to generate an LDAP Directory Interchange Format (LDIF) output based upon the contents of a slapd(8) database.  It opens
       the given database determined by the database number or suffix and writes the corresponding LDIF to standard output or the specified file.

       The LDIF generated by this tool is suitable for use with slapadd(8).  As the entries are in database order, not superior first order,  they
       cannot be loaded with ldapadd(8) without being reordered.

OPTIONS

       -v     enable verbose mode.

       -c     enable continue (ignore errors) mode.

       -d level
	      enable debugging messages as defined by the specified level.

       -b suffix
	      Use  the	specified  suffix  to  determine  which database to generate output for.  The -b cannot be used in conjunction with the -n
	      option.

       -n dbnum
	      Generate output for the dbnum-th database listed in the configuration file.  The -n cannot  be  used  in	conjunction  with  the	-b
	      option.

       -f slapd.conf
	      specify an alternative slapd.conf(5) file.

       -l ldif-file
	      Write LDIF to specified file instead of standard output.

Limitations
       Your slapd(8) should not be running (at least, not in read-write mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the database.

EXAMPLES

       To make a text backup of your SLAPD database and put it in a file called ldif, give the command:

	    /usr/sbin/slapcat -l ldif

SEE ALSO

       ldap(3), ldif(5), slapadd(8), ldapadd(1), slapd(8)

       "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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