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I am able to open the file without a problem.

OK. (digging a little deeper...) What happens when you do something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
$|++;
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

open(STUFF,"< containers.txt") or die "containters.txt:$!";
my @slurp=<STUFF>;
close STUFF:
chomp @slurp;
printf "%s\n",join(",",@slurp);
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Are you seeing all your data?

Another (random) thought: Are you checking error codes from LDAP?

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter at Berghold dot Net
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In reply to Re: Re: Re: strange LDAP bust by blue_cowdawg
in thread strange LDAP bust by tbone

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