How do I download a chef data bag

Question

I am trying to download an entire data bag item with all the json files contained within it from my chef server but the knife download command does not seem to work. I have tried: knife download my_databag_name but this returns nothing in the command line and the data bag file cannot be found.

Answer 1

Either knife download data_bags/bagname or (if you don't need it as separate files) knife search bagname *:*.