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When I try to update an environment attribute in chef using knife like this to pick up the definition from a json file using "from file" it reports "Object unchanged, not saving" even though I have changed an attribute value in my json file: 

knife environment  --disable-editing edit <environment name> from file environment.json

If I remove the --disable-editing option it then invokes the text editor which is not what I want as I need to programatically update the attribute from a script

Any idea what I am missing?

This is Chef: 11.10.4

user3488588
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You want to upload the environment:

knife environment from file <path>
sethvargo
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  • Thanks - that worked (I did have to force the encoding when writing out the json file in the first place to overcome an error "Yajl::ParseError: lexical error: invalid char in json text.") – user3488588 Apr 03 '14 at 16:29