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.TH "KNIFE\-SEARCH" "1" "April 2011" "Chef 0.10.0" "Chef Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
\fBknife\-search\fR \- Find objects on a Chef Server by query
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.SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fBknife\fR \fBsearch INDEX QUERY\fR \fI(options)\fR
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.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-attribute ATTR\fR
Show only one attribute
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.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-id\-only\fR
Show only the ID of matching objects
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.TP
\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-rows INT\fR
The number of rows to return
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.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-run\-list\fR
Show only the run list
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.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-sort SORT\fR
The order to sort the results in
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.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-start ROW\fR
The row to start returning results at
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.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-medium\fR
Display medium sized output when searching nodes using the default summary format
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.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-long\fR
Display long output when searching nodes using the default summary format
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.SH "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: * \fInode\fR * \fIrole\fR * \fIenvironment\fR * \fIdata bag\fR
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.SH "SYNTAX"
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.SH "EXAMPLES"
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBknife\-ssh\fR(1) \fIhttp://wiki\.opscode\.com/display/chef/Attributes\fR
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.SH "AUTHOR"
Chef was written by Adam Jacob \fIadam@opscode\.com\fR with many contributions from the community\.
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.SH "DOCUMENTATION"
This manual page was written by Joshua Timberman \fIjoshua@opscode\.com\fR\. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and / or modify this document under the terms of the Apache 2\.0 License\.
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.SH "CHEF"
Knife is distributed with Chef\. \fIhttp://wiki\.opscode\.com/display/chef/Home\fR