[chef] Re: Re: Re: knife search weirdness. What am I doing wrong here?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 2:40 PM, John Alberts wrote:

> Yeah, I think you are right.
> 
> Well, this kind of sucks. :( It ruins my idea of trying to search for
> a cronjob. There is no way to actually have knife search that field.
> I tried using '*chef' to match the chef-client line, but that returned
> 0 results as well.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a way to match a substring in a value?
> 
> So if my key has a value "blah blah chef-client blah blah", I can find it?
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:28 PM, andi abes 
> <
 
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>  wrote:
> > I think you can only use one * in a search term.
> > 
> > knife search node "crontabs_root_all_lines:*chef
> > or crontabs_root_all_lines:chef*" -a crontabs
> 

You can definitely have more than one wildcard character in a search term. 
For example:

https://github.com/danielsdeleo/knife-plugins/blob/master/grep.rb#L20

As for your search issue, putting too much data in the node will probably 
trigger this bug:

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2346


-- 
Dan DeLeo