write-mime-multipart(1) cloud-utils write-mime-multipart(1) NAME 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 . 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. cloud-utils 11 Jan 2011 write-mime-multipart(1)