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NOTE: Refer to “Common Options for All LDAP Tools” on page 334 for more details on common
options.
Option Description
-a deref Specifies how to handle the dereferencing of an alias. It uses the following
values:
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Never: Aliases are never dereferenced while locating the base object
or searching.
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Always: Aliases are always dereferenced when locating the base
object and searching.
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Search: Aliases are dereferenced when searching subordinates of
the base object but not when locating the base object.
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Find: Aliases are dereferenced when locating the base object but not
when searching for the subordinates of the base object.
-A Retrieves attributes only (no values). This is useful when you want to see
if an attribute is present in an entry and when you are not interested in the
specific values.
-CC Enables referral following. (authenticated bind with same bind DN and
password)
-b searchbase Use searchbase as the starting point for the search.
-L Prints entries in the LDIF format.
-LL Prints entries in the LDIF format without comments.
-LLL Prints entries in the LDIF format without comments and version.
-s scope Specifies the scope of the search. Scope should be base, one, or sub to
specify a base object, one-level, or subtree search. The default is sub.
-S attribute Sorts the entries returned, based on attribute. The default is not to sort
entries returned. If an attribute is a zero-length string (""), the entries are
sorted by the components of their distinguished name. See ldap_sort for
more details. ldapsearch normally prints out entries as it receives them.
The use of the -S option defeats this behavior, causing all entries to be
retrieved, sorted, and then printed.
-t Writes retrieved binary values to a set of temporary files. This is useful for
dealing with non-ASCII values such as jpegPhoto or audio.
-tt Writes all values to temporary files.
-T path Writes files to directory specified by path (default: "/tmp").
-u Includes the user-friendly form of the distinguished name (DN) in the
output.
-V URL prefix for files.
-V prefix Specifies the URL prefix for files (default: "file://tmp/").
-z sizelimit Waits at most sizelimit entries for a search to complete.