1. knife-search(1)
2. Chef Manual
3. knife-search(1)

NAME

knife-search - Find objects on a Chef Server by query

SYNOPSIS

knife search INDEX QUERY (options)

-a, --attribute ATTR

Show only one attribute

-i, --id-only

Show only the ID of matching objects

-R, --rows INT

The number of rows to return

-r, --run-list

Show only the run list

-o, --sort SORT

The order to sort the results in

-b, --start ROW

The row to start returning results at

-m, --medium

Display medium sized output when searching nodes using the default summary format

-l, --long

Display long output when searching nodes using the default summary format

DESCRIPTION

Search indexes are a feature of the Chef Server and the search sub-command allows querying any of the available indexes using SOLR query syntax. The following data types are indexed for search: * node * role * environment * data bag

SYNTAX

EXAMPLES

SEE ALSO

knife-ssh(1) http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Attributes

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 document under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.

CHEF

Knife is distributed with Chef. http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home

1. Chef 0.10.0.rc.1
2. April 2011
3. knife-search(1)