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

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 3:13 PM, andi abes wrote:

> hu!
> Guess I'm out of date... I recall this was a restriction at some point. Is 
> this a recent change? (or am I loosing my mind?)

In Chef 0.8.x and 0.9.x, you could have multiple wildcards, but you could not 
have wildcards in the key part of the query, and you could not have a 
wildcard at the start of the value part of the query. Thanks to the new "no 
fields" index layout, you can now have wildcards in the key (but not at the 
beginning of the key) and anywhere in the value.

See also: 
http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/01/20/post-hoc-index-design-from-regex-to-peg/

-- 
Dan DeLeo 
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> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> > On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 2:40 PM, John Alberts wrote:
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> > > 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
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> > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:28 PM, andi abes 
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> > > > 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
> > > 
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> > 
> > 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
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> > 
> > --
> > Dan DeLeo
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