Remarks: The dsquery commands help you find objects in the directory that match a specified search criterion: the input to ...

Remarks:  The dsquery commands help you find objects in the directory that match   a specified search criterion: the input to dsquery is a search criterion   and the output is a list of objects matching the search. To get the   properties of a specific object, use the dsget commands (dsget /?).    The results from a dsquery command can be piped as input to one of the other  directory service command-line tools, such as dsmod, dsget, dsrm or dsmove.    Commas that are not used as separators in distinguished names must be  escaped with the backslash ("\") character  (for example, "CN=Company\, Inc.,CN=Users,DC=microsoft,DC=com"). Backslashes  used in distinguished names must be escaped with a backslash (for example,  "CN=Sales\\ Latin America,OU=Distribution Lists,DC=microsoft,DC=com").