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

[ando@sys-net.it]

quanah@stanford.edu wrote:

>--On Monday, April 11, 2005 9:44 PM -0700 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" 
><Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:
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>>At 08:57 PM 4/11/2005, quanah@stanford.edu wrote:
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>>>Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-mount
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>>>When running ldapsearch, this will work:
>>>
>>>ldapsearch -x -s base -hlocalhost -b '' +
>>>
>>>but this will not:
>>>
>>>ldapsearch -x -s base -hlocalhost -b'' +
>>>      
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>>The proper (and documented) usage is:
>>        ldapsearch -x -s base -h localhost -b '' +
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>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.
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>--Quanah
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The behavior you see depends on the shell, that tricks getopt into 
believing the argument to -b is the one after the "-b''"; in fact, for 
the shell, -b'' and -b are exactly the same, i.e. a string made of two 
chars: a dash ("-") and a "b".  The documented usage" -b '' ", on the 
contrary, makes the empty string '' a separate arg.

p.


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