10-04-2005
More Info About My Case...
Well... I think I should have stated that the example I posted was an example of a type of use for -exec. But it's not the use I am wanting.
I have a need to use 'find' to locate some files. Once those files are found one at a time, I need each to be processed with a long compound command line or possibly multiple commands to write some metadata into the file using variables.
Closer example to reality:
find . -name "*.fil" -exec metafiler -t METADATA1="First Tag" {} -exec metafiler -t METADATA2="Second Tag" {} -exec metfiler -t METADATA3="Third Tag" {} \;
Does that make more sense?
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NAME
knife-exec - Run user scripts using the Chef API DSL
SYNOPSIS
knife exec (options)
-E, --exec CODE
Provide a snippet of code to evaluate on the command line
DESCRIPTION
knife exec runs arbitrary ruby scripts in a context similar to that of the shef(1) DSL. See the shef documentation for a description of the
commands available.
EXAMPLES
Make an API call against an arbitrary endpoint
knife exec -E 'api.get("nodes/fluke.localdomain/cookbooks")'
=> list of cookbooks for the node fluke.localdomain
Remove the role obsolete from all nodes
knife exec -E 'nodes.transform(:all){|n| n.run_list.delete("role[obsolete]")}'
Generate the expanded run list for hosts in the webserver role
knife exec -E 'nodes.find(:roles => "webserver") {|n| n.expand!; n[:recipes]}'
SEE ALSO
shef(1)
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