Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 8.0 Command Reference Manual page 191

Option
-n
-O
-R
-S
-T
-t
-u
-v
-V
Description
containing the referral. Use this option to search
for entries that contain smart referrals. For
more information about smart referrals, see the
"Configuring Directory Databases" chapter in the
Directory Server Administrator's Guide.
Specifies that the search is not actually to be
performed, but that ldapsearch is to show what
it would do with the specified input.
Specifies the maximum number of referral hops
ldapsearch should automatically follow. For
example:
-O 2
Specifies that referrals are not to be followed
automatically. By default, referrals are followed
automatically.
Specifies the attribute to use as the sort criteria.
For example:
-S sn
Use multiple -S arguments to further define the
sort order. In the following example, the search
results will be sorted first by surname and then
by given name:
-S sn -S givenname
The default is not to sort the returned entries.
Specifies that no line breaks should be used
within individual values in the search results.
Specifies that the results be written to a set
of temporary files. With this option, each
attribute value is placed in a separate file within
the system temporary directory. No base-64
encoding is performed on the values, regardless
of the content.
Specifies that the user-friendly form of the
distinguished name be used in the output.
Specifies that the utility is to run in verbose
mode.
Specifies the LDAP version number to be used
on the search. For example:
-V 2
ldapsearch
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