Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - Using Special Characters; Syntax for Using Special Characters

Using Special Characters
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Using Special Characters
When using the ldapsearch command-line utility, you may need to specify values
that contain characters that have special meaning to the command-line interpreter
(such as space [ ], asterisk [*], backslash [\], and so forth). When this situation
occurs, enclose the value in quotation marks (""). For example:
-D "cn=Barbara Jensen, ou=Product Development, dc=example,dc=com"
Depending on which command-line interpreter you use, you should use either
single or double quotation marks for this purpose. Refer to your operating-system
documentation for more information.
In addition, if you are using DNs that contain commas in values, you must escape
the commas with a backslash. For example:
-D "cn=Patricia Fuentes, ou=people, dc=example,dc=Bolivia\, S.A."
Syntax for Using Special Characters
When you use ldapsearch , you must enter the command using the following
format:
ldapsearch -b basedn filter [optional_options] [optional_list of_attributes]
where
• optional_options is a series of command-line options. These must be specified
before the search filter, if used.
• filter is an LDAP search filter as described in Red Hat Directory Server
Administrator’s Guide. Do not specify a search filter if you are supplying search
filters in a file using the -f option.
ldif Automatically formats LDIF files for you and creates base
64-encoded attribute values. For details on this tool, see
Appendix A in the Red Hat Directory Server Administrator’s
Guide.
dbscan Analyzes and extracts information from a Directory Server
database file.
Table 7-1 Commonly Used Command-Line Utilities (Continued)
Command-Line Utility Description