Re: (ITS#3653) ldapsearch -b option doesn't work if there isn't a space

[quanah@stanford.edu]

--On Monday, April 11, 2005 9:44 PM -0700 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" 
<Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:

> At 08:57 PM 4/11/2005, quanah@stanford.edu wrote:
>> Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-mount
>> Version: 2.2.24
>> OS: Solaris 8
>> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>> Submission from: (NULL) (171.66.182.82)
>>
>>
>> When running ldapsearch, this will work:
>>
>> ldapsearch -x -s base -hlocalhost -b '' +
>>
>> but this will not:
>>
>> ldapsearch -x -s base -hlocalhost -b'' +
>
> The proper (and documented) usage is:
>         ldapsearch -x -s base -h localhost -b '' +
>

Yet the other options (like -h, -s) work just fine with or without the 
space.  Only -b messes up, and it seems to be rather buggy behavior to me. 
Why did it make the search base be + instead of ''? or throw an error, if 
you want to really enforce the space?  As it is now, I would say that 
changing the base to + is not the correct behavior.

--Quanah


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