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.TH "KNIFE-SEARCH" "1" "Chef 11.8.0" "" "knife search"
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knife-search \- The man page for the knife search subcommand.
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Search indexes allow queries to be made for any type of data that is indexed by the server, including data bags (and data bag items), environments, nodes, and roles. A defined query syntax is used to support search patterns like exact, wildcard, range, and fuzzy. A search is a full\-text query that can be done from several locations, including from within a recipe, by using the \fBsearch\fP subcommand in Knife, by using the search functionality in the Chef Manager, or by using the \fB/search\fP or \fB/search/INDEX\fP endpoints in the Chef Server API. The search engine is based on Apache Solr and is run from the server.
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The \fBknife search\fP subcommand is used run a search query for information that is indexed on a server.
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\fBSyntax\fP
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This argument has the following syntax:
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$ knife search INDEX SEARCH_QUERY
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where \fBINDEX\fP is one of \fBclient\fP, \fBenvironment\fP, \fBnode\fP, \fBrole\fP, or the name of a data bag and \fBSEARCH_QUERY\fP is the search query syntax for the query that will be executed.
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\fBINDEX\fP is implied if omitted, and will default to \fBnode\fP. For example:
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$ knife search \(aq*:*\(aq \-i
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will return something similar to:
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8 items found

centos\-62\-dev
opensuse\-1203
ubuntu\-1304\-dev
ubuntu\-1304\-orgtest
ubuntu\-1204\-ohai\-test
ubuntu\-1304\-ifcfg\-test
ohai\-test
win2k8\-dev
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and is the same search as:
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$ knife node search \(aq*:*" \-i
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If the \fBSEARCH_QUERY\fP does not contain a colon character (\fB:\fP), then the default query pattern is \fBtags:*#{@query}* OR roles:*#{@query}* OR fqdn:*#{@query}* OR addresses:*#{@query}*\fP, which means the following two search queries are effectively the same:
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$ knife search ubuntu
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or:
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$ knife search node "tags:*ubuntu* OR roles:*ubuntu* OR fqdn:*ubuntu* (etc.)"
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\fBOptions\fP
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This sub\-command has the following options:
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.B \fB\-a ATTR\fP, \fB\-\-attribute ATTR\fP
The attribute (or attributes) to show.
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.B \fB\-b ROW\fP, \fB\-\-start ROW\fP
The row at which return results will begin.
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.B \fB\-c CONFIG_FILE\fP, \fB\-\-config CONFIG_FILE\fP
The configuration file to use.
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.B \fB\-\-chef\-zero\-port PORT\fP
The port on which chef\-zero will listen.
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.B \fB\-\-[no\-]color\fP
Indicates whether colored output will be used.
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.B \fB\-d\fP, \fB\-\-disable\-editing\fP
Indicates that $EDITOR will not be opened; data will be accepted as\-is.
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.B \fB\-\-defaults\fP
Indicates that Knife will use the default value, instead of asking a user to provide one.
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.B \fB\-e EDITOR\fP, \fB\-\-editor EDITOR\fP
The $EDITOR that is used for all interactive commands.
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.B \fB\-E ENVIRONMENT\fP, \fB\-\-environment ENVIRONMENT\fP
The name of the environment. When this option is added to a command, the command will run only against the named environment.
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.B \fB\-F FORMAT\fP, \fB\-\-format FORMAT\fP
The output format: \fBsummary\fP (default), \fBtext\fP, \fBjson\fP, \fByaml\fP, and \fBpp\fP.
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.B \fB\-h\fP, \fB\-\-help\fP
Shows help for the command.
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.B \fB\-i\fP, \fB\-\-id\-only\fP
Indicates that only matching object IDs will be shown.
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.B \fBINDEX\fP
The name of the index to be queried: \fBclient\fP, \fBenvironment\fP, \fBnode\fP, \fBrole\fP, or \fBDATA_BAG_NAME\fP. Default index: \fBnode\fP.
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.B \fB\-k KEY\fP, \fB\-\-key KEY\fP
The private key that Knife will use to sign requests made by the API client to the server.
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.B \fB\-l\fP, \fB\-\-long\fP
Display long output when searching nodes while using the default summary format.
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.B \fB\-m\fP, \fB\-\-medium\fP
Display more, but not all, of a node\(aqs data when searching using the default summary format.
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.B \fB\-o SORT\fP, \fB\-\-sort SORT\fP
The order in which search results will be sorted.
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.B \fB\-\-print\-after\fP
Indicates that data will be shown after a destructive operation.
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.B \fB\-q SEARCH_QUERY\fP, \fB\-\-query SEARCH_QUERY\fP
Use to protect search queries that start with a hyphen (\-). A \fB\-q\fP query may be specified as an argument or an option, but not both.
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.B \fB\-r\fP, \fB\-\-run\-list\fP
Indicates that only the run\-list will be shown.
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.B \fB\-R INT\fP, \fB\-\-rows INT\fP
The number of rows to be returned.
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.B \fB\-s URL\fP, \fB\-\-server\-url URL\fP
The URL for the server.
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.B \fBSEARCH_QUERY\fP
The search query used to identify a a list of items on a server. This option uses the same syntax as the \fBsearch\fP sub\-command.
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.B \fB\-u USER\fP, \fB\-\-user USER\fP
The user name used by Knife to sign requests made by the API client to the server. Authentication will fail if the user name does not match the private key.
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.B \fB\-v\fP, \fB\-\-version\fP
The version of the chef\-client.
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.B \fB\-V\fP, \fB\-\-verbose\fP
Set for more verbose outputs. Use \fB\-VV\fP for maximum verbosity.
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.B \fB\-y\fP, \fB\-\-yes\fP
Indicates that the response to all confirmation prompts will be "Yes" (and that Knife will not ask for confirmation).
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.B \fB\-z\fP, \fB\-\-local\-mode\fP
Indicates that the chef\-client will be run in local mode, which allows all commands that work against the server to also work against the local chef\-repo.
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\fBExamples\fP
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To search for the IDs of all nodes running on the Amazon EC2 platform, enter:
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to return something like:
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4 items found

ip\-0A7CA19F.ec2.internal

ip\-0A58CF8E.ec2.internal

ip\-0A58E134.ec2.internal

ip\-0A7CFFD5.ec2.internal
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To search for the instance type (flavor) of all nodes running on the Amazon EC2 platform, enter:
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$ knife search node \(aqec2:*\(aq \-a ec2.instance_type
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to return something like:
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ec2.instance_type:  m1.large
id:                 ip\-0A7CA19F.ec2.internal

ec2.instance_type:  m1.large
id:                 ip\-0A58CF8E.ec2.internal

ec2.instance_type:  m1.large
id:                 ip\-0A58E134.ec2.internal

ec2.instance_type:  m1.large
id:                 ip\-0A7CFFD5.ec2.internal
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To search for all nodes running Ubuntu, enter:
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$ knife search node \(aqplatform:ubuntu\(aq
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To search for all nodes running CentOS in the production environment, enter:
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$ knife search node \(aqchef_environment:production AND platform:centos\(aq
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To find a nested attribute, use a pattern similar to the following:
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$ knife search node <query_to_run> \-a <main_attribute>.<nested_attribute>
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To build a search query to use more than one attribute, use an underscore ( _ ) to separate each attribute. For example, the following query will search for all nodes running a specific version of Ruby:
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$ knife search node "languages_ruby_version:1.9.3"
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To build a search query that can find a nested attribute:
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$ knife search node name:<node_name> \-a kernel.machine
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To test a search query that will be used in a \fBknife ssh\fP command:
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$ knife search node "role:web AND NOT name:web03"
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where the query in the previous example will search all servers that have the \fBweb\fP role, but not on the server named \fBweb03\fP.
.SH AUTHOR
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