Chef Cookbook - Third Edition

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You can pass patterns to the knife show command to tell it exactly what you want to see. Showing the attributes defined by the cookbook can be done as follows:

mma@laptop:~/work/chef_helpster $ knife show cookbooks/iptables/attributes/*
cookbooks/iptables/attributes/default.rb:
#
# Cookbook Name:: iptables
# Attribute:: default
...TRUNCATED OUTPUT...