[chef] How/can I update a node's attributes via knife WITHOUT bootstrapping

["Fouts, Chris" < >]

I’m aware of the -j option to set node attributes during bootstrap. I’m also aware of knife edit, which is needs user input form an editor. This is NOT what I’m talking about

 

If a node is already bootstrapped, how can I set some of its attributes without re-bootstrapping it, and not using knife edit. I know I can do the following in a script since I want to do this automagically.

-        Knife ode show –Fj > node.json

-        Edit the node.json file

-        Knife node from file node.json

Is there a more elegant way?