[chef] Re: Check if recipe is being used

[Gregory Patmore < >]

search key "recipes" is what your looking for. This way it checks the 
expanded run list that is established after chef explodes any roles (and 
environments I think?) that are assigned to the node. 

to search for recipe 'install' from the 'widget' cookbook you would:
knife search node "recipes:widget\:\:install"
# note the escaping of the double colon

The only snafu with this approach is if someone hates you and uses 
include_recipe inside of another recipe. A recursive grep on your chef repo 
should reveal the culprit(s). 

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 28, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Adam 
> <
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>  wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to tell if a recipe from a cookbook that I wrote is being 
> used
> by some other cookbook, or role?  Trying to do some maintenance on our Chef
> server and there are duplicate recipes and want to get them cleaned up.  I 
> have
> multiple roles and environments so searching through it manually is a bit 
> time
> consuming.