Use knife to create a new recipe in a cookbook

Question

I've used knife solo to create a new folder and a cookbook with a default recipe using a custom template defined by .chef/knife.rb. My question is what command do I use for knife to create new recipes with that template instead of using cp?

Something like knife cookbook addrecipe somerecipe

Answer 1

once you have the cookbook created, then there will be recipe folder inside the cookbook . you can go on writing as many recipes as you want inside the recipes folder. AFAIK, knife cookbook does not provide any option for creating a new recipe. check knife cookbook --help

Answer 2

You can use chef rather than knife for recipe creation.

chef generate recipe cookbooks/test_cookbook new_recipe

Compiling Cookbooks...Recipe: code_generator::recipe[...]    
- create new file cookbooks/test_cookbook new_recipe.rb    
- update content in file cookbooks/test_cookbook new_recipe.rb from none to 8602b0    (diff output suppressed by config)

Answer 3

knife cookbook create some-recipe -o ./recipe-dir (usually cookbooks)