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    15 .TH hiera 1 

    16 .SH NAME

    17 hiera \- Lightweight Pluggable Hierarchical Database

    18 .SH SYNOPSIS

    19 .B hiera

    20 [options] key [default value] [variable='text'...]

    21 .SH DESCRIPTION

    22 Lightweight Pluggable Hierarchical Database

    23 .sp

    24 The default value will be used if no value is found for the key. Scope

    25 variables will be interpolated into %{variable} placeholders in the hierarchy and in

    26 returned values.

    27 .SH OPTIONS

    28 .TP

    29 .BR "-V, --version"

    30 Version information

    31 .TP

    32 .BR "-d, --debug"

    33 Show debugging information

    34 .TP

    35 .BR "-a, --array"

    36 Return all values as an array

    37 .TP

    38 .BR "-h, --hash"

    39 Return all values as a hash

    40 .TP

    41 .BR "-c, --config "\fICONFIG\fR

    42 Configuration file

    43 .TP

    44 .BR "-j, --json "\fISCOPE\fR

    45 JSON format file to load scope from

    46 .TP

    47 .BR "-y, --yaml "\fISCOPE\fR

    48 YAML format file to load scope from

    49 .TP

    50 .BR "-m, --mcollective "\fIIDENTITY\fR

    51 Use facts from a node (via mcollective) as scope

    52 .TP

    53 .BR "-i, --inventory_service "\fIIDENTITY\fR

    54 Use facts from a node (via Puppet's inventory service) as scope

    55 .SH FILES

    56 .BR /etc/hiera.yaml

    57 Configuration File