The following example demonstrates use of the command. $ ldifsearch -b dc=example,dc=com /path/to/Example.ldif uid=bjensen dn: uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top uid: bjensen userpassword: hifalutin facsimiletelephonenumber: +1 408 555 1992 givenname: Barbara cn: Barbara Jensen cn: Babs Jensen telephonenumber: +1 408 555 1862 sn: Jensen roomnumber: 0209 homeDirectory: /home/bjensen mail: bjensen@example.com l: Cupertino ou: Product Development ou: People uidNumber: 1076 gidNumber: 1000 You can also use @objectclass notation in the attribute list to return the attributes of a particular object class. The following example shows how to return attributes of the posixAccount object class. $ ldifsearch --ldifFile /path/to/Example.ldif \ --baseDN dc=example,dc=com "(uid=bjensen)" @posixaccount dn: uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top uid: bjensen userpassword: hifalutin cn: Barbara Jensen cn: Babs Jensen homeDirectory: /home/bjensen uidNumber: 1076 gidNumber: 1000