HIERA(1)

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🌸 HIERA(1) — the Utils manual, bestie edition 🌸

okay so you opened the Utils manual for hiera and honestly? you're about to have a good time. this is the page for hiera — a Lightweight Pluggable Hierarchical Database. yes the name is a whole mouthful, we'll get through it together 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hiera [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just hiera and then some options. no positional args, no drama, no cap 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so hiera is literally just a simple pluggable hierarchical database. that's the entire description, she said what she said, and she ate 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay bestie, important heads-up before we dive in: mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. so if an option needs a value, it needs it whether you spell it long or short. no shortcuts around that one, sorry 💀

  • -V, --version — shows you the Version information. little "who am I" moment, iconic.
  • -d, --debug — shows you debugging information. for when you need to know what's going on in there 🔍
  • -a, --array — Array search. searching, but make it arrays 🍓
  • -h, --hash — Hash search. same energy, hash edition 🦋
  • -c, --config CONFIG — points at your Configuration file. the CONFIG one, specifically ✨
  • -j, --json SCOPE — a JSON format file to load scope from. JSON girlies rise 💜
  • -y, --yaml SCOPE — a YAML format file to load scope from. YAML besties, this one's for you 🌸
  • -m, --mcollective IDENTITY — retrieves facts from a node via mcollective as scope, using that IDENTITY 👑
  • -i, --inventory_service IDENTITY — retrieves facts for a node via Puppet's inventory service as scope, using that IDENTITY 🧚
ngl the -i and -m ones are the "go ask a whole other machine for the tea" options and I respect them so much 😭

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

hiera is a part of Puppet Hiera and was developed by Puppet Labs <info@puppetlabs.com>, (and R.I.Pienaar <rip@devco.net> respectively, fr fr).

This man page was written by Patrick Ringl <patrick_@freenet.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may also be used by others, and honestly? generous of them 🫶).

okay that's the whole page!! thank you for coming to my TED talk 💖 this was the Utils manual for hiera, dated 2012, and you read the whole thing which means you're literally the main character now. slay, periodt, go run hiera --version or something 🌟💅✨

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