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user2548056
user2548056

Reputation: 3

bash ldapsearch for mail attribute

I am trying to write a script that pulls in an e-mail address from a file, and then does an ldapsearch query for the mail attribute. I am having problems, and I think the "@" sign in the email address is the culprit

while IFS=, read uid user mail
do
    filter='(mail='"$mail"')'
    echo $filter
done < input.csv

I keep getting output like this:

)[email protected]

When I want it to look like this:

([email protected])

I appreciate any help!

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 752

Answers (1)

rici
rici

Reputation: 241861

The culprit is the carriage return (\r or \x0d) at the end of each line of your input.

You need to convert your csv file to unix-style line endings, or otherwise remove the trailing carriage return.

Use hd to see the output in hex, which might make what's going on more obvious (the ) is being written on top of the ()

Upvotes: 4

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