[chef] Approaches to automate execution of Knife command

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Hi all,

I am using chef to provision a VM using Knife-Vcloud and i have several knife
commands to run as a sequence. I can write a Shell script to execute commands
in order but i would like to know is there a better way of automating running
of knife commands. 
The requirement is as follows - When i run the 1st chef command, it provisions
a virtual machine. In my second knife command, i may use it as an input for 
the
command such as the IP address of the virtual machine generated in the 1st
command. Can anyone suggest a good way to do this ?