knife-count is a little knife plugin to get the number of nodes (or other items) in a Chef search query more quickly than with knife search.

$ knife count chef_environment:prod
1632

Install the plugin as a gem:

chef gem install knife-count

To get the total number of results from a node query:

knife count "QUERY"

To search other object types:

knife count TYPE "QUERY"

To get the count of all nodes (search *:*):

knife count

Development sponsored by Bloomberg.

Copyright 2016, Noah Kantrowitz

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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