write-mime-multipart1
Utility for creating mime-multipart files, likely for use via user data and cloud-init.
Usage
write-mime-multipart [options]
Overview
This program is intended to help write data that can be consumed by cloud-init. cloud-init reads mime multipart as user-data.
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-h | --help -
Show usage message
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-o | --output FILE -
write output to FILE [default is stdout]
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-z | --gzip -
compress output with gzip
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-d | --default DEFTYPE -
if not provided assume mime-type of DEFTYPE [default is 'text/plain']
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--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
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 8 (Jessie)