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Ldifde Command Error

Command Below is what I run:

ldifde –f "C:\Nandhini.txt –d “CN=Nandhini, OU=Users, DC=contoso,DC=com”

I get this error message.
Invalid Parameter: Bad argument '-f'

Example: Macro expansion in DNs
ldifde -f export.ldf -c "#configurationNamingContext" "cn=configuration,dc=x"
ldifde -i -f import.ldf -c "cn=configuration,dc=x" "#configurationNamingContext"

No log files were written. In order to generate a log file, please
specify the log file path via the -j option.

Can someone help me get this output file of the user.txt.

Don Thomson

Try

ldifde –f C:\Nandhini.txt –d “CN=Nandhini, OU=Users, DC=contoso,DC=com”

You can never have three " in an expression - they have to be in matched pairs and are only used when the file name has a space in it such as "C:\my Documents\..."
If the file name doesn't have a space the quotes are unnecessary

shoris

ASKER

tried that I still get that error above grrr.

No log files were written. In order to generate a log file, please
specify the log file path via the -j option

Bxoz

Are you sure about your hyphen ? It seems more like a dash.
There is a little difference between –f and -f

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Bxoz

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BillDL

I noticed the same thing as Bxoz did with the hyphen vs dash. The longer hyphen shows as hex 96 and the dash as hex 2d in a hex editor. In a web page it is converted to –f whereas the short dash -f is just displayed literally. It's more apparent in large font in a screenshot.

Bxoz

Hello Shoris,

Can you give us any feelback ?

shoris

ASKER

it worked.. sorry for the late response.. thank you so much. I had been travelling.