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    <li class='tl'>knife-exec(1)</li>
    <li class='tc'>Chef Manual</li>
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  <h2 id="NAME">NAME</h2>
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  <code>knife-exec</code> - <span class="man-whatis">Run user scripts using the Chef API DSL</span>
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<h2 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h2>

<p><strong>knife</strong> <strong>exec</strong> <em>(options)</em></p>

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<dt><code>-E</code>, <code>--exec CODE</code></dt><dd>Provide a snippet of code to evaluate on the command line</dd>
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<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>

<p><code>knife exec</code> runs arbitrary ruby scripts in a context similar to that
of the <span class="man-ref">chef-shell<span class="s">(1)</span></span> DSL. See the chef-shell documentation for a
description of the commands available.</p>

<h2 id="EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</h2>

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<dt>Make an API call against an arbitrary endpoint</dt><dd>knife exec -E 'api.get("nodes/fluke.localdomain/cookbooks")'
=> list of cookbooks for the node <em>fluke.localdomain</em></dd>
<dt>Remove the role <em>obsolete</em> from all nodes</dt><dd>knife exec -E 'nodes.transform(:all){|n| n.run_list.delete("role[obsolete]")}'</dd>
<dt>Generate the expanded run list for hosts in the <code>webserver</code> role</dt><dd>knife exec -E 'nodes.find(:roles => "webserver") {|n| n.expand!; n[:recipes]}'</dd>
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<h2 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h2>

<p>   <strong><span class="man-ref">chef-shell<span class="s">(1)</span></span></strong></p>

<h2 id="AUTHOR">AUTHOR</h2>

<p>   Chef was written by Adam Jacob <a href="&#109;&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#116;&#111;&#x3a;&#x61;&#x64;&#97;&#109;&#64;&#x6f;&#x70;&#x73;&#99;&#111;&#100;&#x65;&#x2e;&#99;&#x6f;&#109;" data-bare-link="true">&#97;&#x64;&#x61;&#x6d;&#64;&#x6f;&#112;&#x73;&#99;&#111;&#x64;&#x65;&#46;&#x63;&#111;&#109;</a> with many contributions from the community.</p>

<h2 id="DOCUMENTATION">DOCUMENTATION</h2>

<p>   This manual page was written by Joshua Timberman <a href="&#x6d;&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#58;&#106;&#x6f;&#115;&#x68;&#x75;&#97;&#64;&#x6f;&#112;&#x73;&#99;&#x6f;&#100;&#101;&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;&#109;" data-bare-link="true">&#106;&#x6f;&#115;&#x68;&#x75;&#97;&#64;&#x6f;&#x70;&#x73;&#99;&#111;&#x64;&#101;&#46;&#x63;&#111;&#x6d;</a>.
   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and / or modify this document under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.</p>

<h2 id="CHEF">CHEF</h2>

<p>   Knife is distributed with Chef. <a href="http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home" data-bare-link="true">http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home</a></p>


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    <li class='tl'>Chef 11.0.0.alpha</li>
    <li class='tc'>September 2012</li>
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