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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Chef documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Wed Feb 22 13:50:49 2012.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import sys, os
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# -- General configuration -----------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions
+# coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
+extensions = ['sphinx.ext.todo']
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = u'chef-client'
+# copyright = u'This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+#version = '0.0.0'
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+#release = '0.0.0-0'
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+today = 'Chef 12.0'
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+exclude_patterns = []
+
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents.
+#default_role = None
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+#add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+#add_module_names = True
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+#show_authors = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'emacs'
+
+# highlight_language = 'ruby'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+#modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+# A string of reStructuredText that will be included at the beginning of every source file that is read.
+rst_prolog = """
+.. include:: ../../swaps/swap_descriptions.txt
+.. include:: ../../swaps/swap_names.txt
+.. include:: ../../swaps/swap_notes.txt
+"""
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output --------------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    ('index', 'chef-apply', u'The man page for the chef-apply command line tool.',
+     [u'Chef'], 8)
+]
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+#man_show_urls = False
+
diff --git a/man_chef_apply/source/index.rst b/man_chef_apply/source/index.rst
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+=====================================================
+|chef apply| (executable)
+=====================================================
+
+.. include:: ../../includes_ctl_chef_apply/includes_ctl_chef_apply.rst
+
+Options
+=====================================================
+.. include:: ../../includes_ctl_chef_apply/includes_ctl_chef_apply_options.rst
+
+Examples
+=====================================================
+
+To use |chef apply| to run a recipe named ``machinations.rb``, enter the following:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   $ chef-apply machinations.rb