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NOTE
In Chef code, a string prefaced by a single colon (:) is called a
symbol
. In other languages
this is equivalent to a string constant.
Now let's perform a Chef run using the
cleanup.rb
recipe on Linux/Mac OS X:
$
sudo chef-apply cleanup.rb
Recipe: (chef-apply cookbook)::(chef-apply recipe)
* file[/Users/misheska/stone.txt] action delete
- delete file /Users/misheska/stone.txt
or, in Windows (Run As Administrator):
>
chef-apply cleanup.rb
Recipe: (chef-apply cookbook)::(chef-apply recipe)
* file[C:/Users/misheska/stone.txt] action delete
- delete file C:/Users/misheska/stone.txt
NOTE
In Chef, using relative paths with
:delete
is problematic on some platforms, so just de-
lete the
hello.txt
file by hand that you created in the first exercise.
We've cleaned up the
stone.txt
we created in this final hands-on exercise in the chapter.
chef-apply
deleted
stone.txt
.
Summary
In this chapter we introduced the
chef-apply
command, showing you how to run
.rb
files
containing Chef code.
We introduced the following Chef concepts and terminology:
