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8.2 Product PingDirectory Directory Capability Product documentation Content Type Administration User task IT Administrator Administrator Audience Software Deployment Method LDAP Standards, specifications, and protocols
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You can generate a file of DNs that you would like to delete from the Directory Server.
The following command searches for all entries in the ou=Accounting branch and returns the DNs of the subentries.
$ bin/dump-dns -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" -w password --baseDN \ "ou=Accounting,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com" --outputFile /usr/local/entry_dns.txt
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Run the ldapdelete command with the file to delete the
entries. The command uses the --continueError option, which
will continue deleting through the whole list even if an error is encountered
for a DN entry.
$ bin/ldapdelete --filename /usr/local/entry_dns.txt --continueError