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NAME
       puppet-parser - Interact directly with the parser.

SYNOPSIS
       puppet parser action

OPTIONS
       Note that any setting that's valid in the configuration file is also a
       valid long argument, although it may or may not be relevant to the
       present action. For example, server and run_mode are valid settings, so
       you can specify --server <servername>, or --run_mode <runmode> as an
       argument.

       See the configuration file documentation at
       http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/configuration.html for the
       full list of acceptable parameters. A commented list of all
       configuration options can also be generated by running puppet with
       --genconfig.

       --render-as FORMAT
              The format in which to render output. The most common formats
              are json, s (string), yaml, and console, but other options such
              as dot are sometimes available.

       --verbose
              Whether to log verbosely.

       --debug
              Whether to log debug information.

ACTIONS
       dump - Outputs a dump of the internal parse tree for debugging
              SYNOPSIS

              puppet parser dump [--e source] [--[no-]validate] -e source|
              [manifest ...]

              DESCRIPTION

              This action parses and validates the Puppet DSL syntax without
              compiling a catalog or syncing any resources.

              The command accepts one or more manifests (.pp) files, or an -e
              followed by the puppet source text. If no arguments are given,
              the stdin is read (unless it is attached to a terminal)

              The output format of the dumped tree is intended for debugging
              purposes and is not API, it may change from time to time.

              OPTIONS --e <source> - dump one source expression given on the
              command line.

              --[no-]validate - Whether or not to validate the parsed result,
              if no-validate only syntax errors are reported

              RETURNS

              A dump of the resulting AST model unless there are syntax or
              validation errors.

       validate - Validate the syntax of one or more Puppet manifests.
              SYNOPSIS

              puppet parser validate [manifest] [manifest ...]

              DESCRIPTION

              This action validates Puppet DSL syntax without compiling a
              catalog or syncing any resources. If no manifest files are
              provided, it will validate the default site manifest.

              When validating multiple issues per file are reported up to the
              settings of max_error, and max_warnings. The processing stops
              after having reported issues for the first encountered file with
              errors.

              RETURNS

              Nothing, or the first syntax error encountered.

EXAMPLES
       validate

       Validate the default site manifest at
       /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests/site.pp:

       $ puppet parser validate

       Validate two arbitrary manifest files:

       $ puppet parser validate init.pp vhost.pp

       Validate from STDIN:

       $ cat init.pp | puppet parser validate

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
       Copyright 2014 by Puppet Labs Apache 2 license; see COPYING

Puppet Labs, LLC                   May 2015                   PUPPET-PARSER(8)