Using Ldapsearch; Using Special Characters - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Using ldapsearch

On Directory Server Console, select the Directory tab.
3.
Depending on the DN you used to authenticate to the directory, this tab
displays the contents of the directory that you have access permissions to view.
You can browse through the contents of the tree or right-click an entry and
select Search from the pop-up menu. See the online help for information on
using this feature.
CAUTION
Using ldapsearch
You can use the
entries. This utility opens a connection to the specified server using the specified
distinguished name and password, and locates entries based on a specified search
filter. Search scopes can include a single entry, an entry's immediate subentries, or
an entire tree or subtree.
Search results are returned in LDIF format.
This section contains information about the following topics:
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Using Special Characters

• ldapsearch Command-Line Format
• Commonly Used ldapsearch Options
• ldapsearch Examples
Using Special Characters
When using the
that contain characters that have special meaning to the command-line interpreter
(such as space [ ], asterisk [*], backslash [\], and so forth). When you specify special
characters, enclose the value in quotation marks (""). For example:
-D "cn=Barbara Jensen,ou=Product Development,dc=example,dc=com"
Depending on your command-line interpreter, use either single or double
quotation marks for this purpose. Refer to your operating system documentation
for more information.
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Do not modify the contents of the
Directory tab unless instructed to do so by Netscape Technical Support.
command-line utility to locate and retrieve directory
ldapsearch
command-line utility, you may need to specify values
ldapsearch
suffix using the
o=NetscapeRoot