Ever want to get the latest versions of your cookbooks to include them in your environment manifests?

get-newest.sh

#!/bin/bash

spaces=${1:-0}
if [ "$[$spaces-$spaces]" -ne "0" ]; then
  spaces=0
fi

i=0
while [ $i -lt $spaces ]; do
  begin="$begin "
  i=$[$i+1]
done

grep '^version' cookbooks/*/metadata.rb | \
  sed -e 's/cookbooks\//"/' | \
  sed -e 's/\/metadata.rb:version/":/' | \
  sort -k1 | \
  awk '{ printf "%-24s %s\n", $1, $2}' | \
  sed -e "s/[\'\"]\([0-9]\)/\"= \1/" | \
  sed -e "s/[\'\"]\$/\",/" | \
  sed -e '$s/,$//' | \
  sed -e "s/^/$begin/" | tee newest