KNIFE-EXEC(1) Chef Manual KNIFE-EXEC(1)
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)
AUTHOR
Chef was written by Adam Jacob adam@opscode.com with many contributions from the community.
DOCUMENTATION
This manual page was written by Joshua Timberman joshua@opscode.com. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and / or modify this docu-
ment under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.
CHEF
Knife is distributed with Chef. http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home
Chef 10.12.0 June 2012 KNIFE-EXEC(1)
