The man page for the knife search subcommand. search indexes allow queries to be made for any type of data that is indexed by the server, including data bags (and data bag items), environments, nodes, and roles. a defined query syntax is used to support search patterns like exact, wildcard, range, and fuzzy. a search is a full-text query that can be done from several locations, including from within a recipe, by using the search subcommand in knife, by using the search functionality in the chef manage, or by using the /search or /search/index endpoints in the chef server api. the search engine is based on apache solr and is run from the server. the knife search subcommand is used run a search query for information that is indexed on a server. syntax this argument has the following syntax: