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How to escape node names in knife

I have a node name that begins with -- and I'm not able to do anything with it in knife (ie. knife node show --mynode returns the help documentation viewing --mynode as an invalid option).

I've tried with double and single quotes with no luck. Is there a way to escape the node name so knife can parse the argument as the node name and not try to parse it as an option?

Solution

  • The easiest option is to use knife raw:

    $ knife raw /nodes/--mynode
$ knife raw -m DELETE /nodes/--mynode

    You can also probably use knife node show -- --mynode but I haven't tried that in a while.