Re: ldapsearch output

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@obsidian.co.za>]

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Tobias Rice wrote:
| Is there a way to have ldapsearch return a single value? I'd like to
| give it a uid name and have it just return the uidNumber. If I enter this:
| ldapsearch -x "(uid=hsimpson)" uidNumber
| # extended LDIF
| #
| # LDAPv3
| # base <> with scope sub
| # filter: (uid=hsimpson)
| # requesting: uidNumber
| #
|
| # hsimpson, People, aorganise.com
| dn: uid=hsimpson,ou=People,dc=mydomain,dc=com
| uidNumber: 1012
|
| # search result
| search: 2
| result: 0 Success
|
| # numResponses: 2
| # numEntries: 1
|
| ...I'm getting way to much back for my scripts.
|
| All I want is 1012. Is there a better way to filter this or will I have
| to do it elsewhere (like perl)?
|

How about:

ldapsearch -x "(uid=hsimpson)" uidNumber -LLL|awk -F ': ' '/^uidNumber/
{print $1}'
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Buchan Milne                      Senior Support Technician
Obsidian Systems                  http://www.obsidian.co.za
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