2011-2012ForgeRock AS ldifsearch1 OpenDJ ldifsearch search LDIF with LDAP filters ldifsearch options source filter attribute This utility can be used to perform search operations against data in an LDIF file. The following options are supported. -A, --typesOnly Only retrieve attribute names but not their values -b, --baseDN {baseDN} Search base DN -f, --filterFile {filterFile} File containing a list of search filter strings -l, --timeLimit {timeLimit} Maximum length of time in seconds to allow for the search Default value: 0 -o, --outputFile {File} Write search results to {file} instead of stdout Default: stdout -s, --searchScope {scope} Search scope ('base', 'one', 'sub', or 'subordinate') Default value: sub -V, --version Display version information. -z, --sizeLimit {sizeLimit} Maximum number of matching entries to return from the search Default value: 0 -?, -H, --help Display usage information. The filter argument is a string representation of an LDAP search filter as in (cn=Babs Jensen), (&(objectClass=Person)(|(sn=Jensen)(cn=Babs J*))), or (cn:caseExactMatch:=Fred Flintstone). The optional attribute list specifies the attributes to return in the entries found by the search. In addition to identifying attributes by name such as cn sn mail and so forth, you can use the following notations, too. * Return all user attributes such as cn, sn, and mail. + Return all operational attributes such as etag and pwdPolicySubentry. @objectclass Return all attributes of the specified object class, where objectclass is one of the object classes on the entries returned by the search. 0 The command completed successfully. > 0 An error occurred. The following example demonstrates use of the command. $ ldifsearch -b dc=example,dc=com /path/to/Example.ldif uid=bjensen dn: uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top uid: bjensen userpassword: hifalutin facsimiletelephonenumber: +1 408 555 1992 givenname: Barbara cn: Barbara Jensen cn: Babs Jensen telephonenumber: +1 408 555 1862 sn: Jensen roomnumber: 0209 homeDirectory: /home/bjensen mail: bjensen@example.com l: Cupertino ou: Product Development ou: People uidNumber: 1076 gidNumber: 1000 You can also use @objectclass notation in the attribute list to return the attributes of a particular object class. The following example shows how to return attributes of the posixAccount object class. $ ldifsearch --ldifFile /path/to/Example.ldif --baseDN dc=example,dc=com "(uid=bjensen)" @posixaccount dn: uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top uid: bjensen userpassword: hifalutin cn: Barbara Jensen cn: Babs Jensen homeDirectory: /home/bjensen uidNumber: 1076 gidNumber: 1000