puppet-describe - Display help about resource types
Prints help about Puppet resource types, providers, and metaparameters.
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NAME
puppet-describe - Display help about resource types
SYNOPSIS
Prints help about Puppet resource types, providers, and metaparameters.
USAGE
puppet describe [-h|--help] [-s|--short] [-p|--providers] [-l|--list]
[-m|--meta]
OPTIONS
--help Print this help text
--providers
Describe providers in detail for each type
--list List all types
--meta List all metaparameters
--short
List only parameters without detail
EXAMPLE
$ puppet describe --list
$ puppet describe file --providers
$ puppet describe user -s -m
AUTHOR
David Lutterkort
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2011 Puppet Inc., LLC Licensed under the Apache 2.0
License
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | system/management/puppet |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://puppetlabs.com/.
Puppet, Inc. January 2022 PUPPET-DESCRIBE(8)