# Knife bootstrap by passing ip variable addresses

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-bootstrap-by-passing-ip-variable-addresses/4521>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [October 1, 2013, 8:02am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-bootstrap-by-passing-ip-variable-addresses/4521 "2013-10-01T08:02:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ifeanyi\_P\_Egwutuoha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ifeanyi\_P\_Egwutuoha](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Ifeanyi_P_Egwutuoha)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 8:02am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-bootstrap-by-passing-ip-variable-addresses/4521/1 "2013-10-01T08:02:34Z")

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Is there a way of passing parameters to knife bootstrap?

For example, I want to bootstrap multiple nodes by passing its ip addresses  
to knife bootstrap in script

for instance, $ knife bootstrap\* \* --ssh-user xxxx -P xxxt --sudo

Regards, Ifeanyi