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<h2 id="rzahyldapdif">LDAP data interchange format (LDIF)</h2>
<p>This documentation describes the LDAP data interchange format (LDIF), as
used by the <a href="rzahyldapadd.htm#rzahyldapadd">ldapmodify</a>, <a href="rzahyldapsrch.htm#rzahyldapsrch">ldapsearch</a> and <a href="rzahyldapadd.htm#rzahyldapadd">ldapadd</a> utilities. The LDIF
specified here is also supported by the server utilities provided with the
IBM Directory.</p>
<p>LDIF is used to represent LDAP entries in text form. The basic form of
an LDIF entry is: </p>
<pre class="xmp">dn: &lt;<var class="pv">distinguished name</var>>
&lt;<var class="pv">attrtype</var>> : &lt;<var class="pv">attrvalue</var>>
&lt;<var class="pv">attrtype</var>> : &lt;<var class="pv">attrvalue</var>>
...</pre><p class="indatacontent">A line can be continued by starting the next line with a single space
or tab character, for example:</p>
<pre class="xmp"> dn: cn=John E Doe, o=University of Higher
Learning, c=US</pre><p class="indatacontent">Multiple attribute values are specified on separate
lines, for example:</p>
<pre class="xmp"> cn: John E Doe
cn: John Doe</pre><p class="indatacontent">If an &lt;<var class="pv">attrvalue</var>> contains a non-US-ASCII
character, or begins with a space or a colon ':', the &lt;<var class="pv">attrtype</var>>
is followed by a double colon and the value is encoded in base-64 notation.
For example, the value " begins with a space" would be encoded like this: </p>
<pre class="xmp"> cn:: IGJlZ2lucyB3aXRoIGEgc3BhY2U=</pre><p class="indatacontent">Multiple entries within the same
LDIF file are separated by a blank line. Multiple blank lines are considered
a logical end-of-file.</p>
<p>For more information, see the following:</p>
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<li><a href="rzahyldifexmp.htm#rzahyldifexmp">Example: LDIF</a></li>
<li><a href="rzahyldifv1.htm#rzahyldifv1">Version 1 LDIF support</a></li>
<li><a href="rzahyldifv1ex.htm#rzahyldifv1ex">Examples: Version 1 LDIF</a></li></ul>
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