write-mime-multipart (1) Linux Manual Page

write-mime-multipart – utilty for creating mime-multipart files, likely for use via user data and cloud-init.

Synopsis

write-mime-multipart [options]

Description

This program is intended to help write data that can be consumed by cloud-init. cloud-init reads mime multipart as user-data.

-h | –help

Show usage message

-o | –output FILE

write output to FILE [default is stdout]

-z | –gzip

compress output with gzip

-d | –default DEFTYPE

if not provided assume mime-type of DEFTYPE [default is ‘text/plain’]

–delim DELIM

use delimiter DELIM [default is ‘:’]

Examples

  write-mime-multipart –gzip –output=combined-userdata.txt boothook.txt:text/cloud-boothook include-file.txt:text/x-include-url

Author

This manpage and the utility was written by Scott Moser <scott.moser [at] canonical.com>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.