*update* : simplification with xx_XX.UTF-8 "locale" (see below)

When you are using ldapsearch to find quickly some informations in LDAP directory, there are some problems.

  1. Some lines are wrapped (several lines for a single attribute-value).
  2. Some lines are encoded in base64 (those with utf8 content).

For instance, with this command :

ldapsearch -x -LLL -h myldaphost -b 'ou=myldapbase,...'

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Just "pipe" the result in this Perl filter :

ldapsearch ...  | perl -MMIME::Base64 -MEncode=decode -n -00 -e 's/\n 
+//g;s/(?<=:: )(\S+)/decode("UTF-8",decode_base64($1))/eg;print'
 [or]
ldapsearch ...  | perl -MMIME::Base64 -MEncode=decode -n -00 -e 's/\n 
+//g;s/(?<=:: )(\S+)/decode("UTF-8",decode_base64($1))/eg;print if /Be
+yoncé/'

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This way, the Lord of the Rings can see the entire block (LDAP entry) matched by the regex you want (a single lady, in this example).

Warning : the output is NOT LDIF-compatible, it's just 'text'.

update : depending of your context (locale with or without UTF-8), you can simplify the command-line, like this:

ldapsearch ...  | perl -MMIME::Base64 -n -00 -e 's/\n //g;s/(?<=:: )(\
+S+)/decode_base64($1)/eg;print'
 [or]
ldapsearch ...  | perl -MMIME::Base64 -n -00 -e 's/\n //g;s/(?<=:: )(\
+S+)/decode_base64($1)/eg;print if /Beyoncé/'

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