use strict; use Net::LDAP; use Text::ParseWords; use Data::Dumper; my $host = 'somehost'; my $port = 400; my $user = 'p=xxx'; my $pass = 'secret'; my $base = 'cp=1, p=root'; my $ldap = Net::LDAP->new($host, port => $port) or die "$@\n"; $ldap->bind($user, password => $pass); my $mesg = $ldap->search ( base => "$base", filter => "(objectClass=*)", ); $mesg->code && die $mesg->error . "\n"; my %entries; foreach my $entry ($mesg->all_entries) { my $dn = $entry->dn; $dn =~ s/\s+//g; $entry->dn($dn); my @path = reverse parse_line(",", 1, $dn); $entries{join ',', @path} = $entry; # this is not what I want exactly } $ldap->unbind; foreach my $dn (sort keys %entries) { print "$dn\n"; } exit;