diff --git a/Main.hs b/Main.hs
--- a/Main.hs
+++ b/Main.hs
@@ -41,8 +41,22 @@
 > Pin: release a=karmic
 > Pin-Priority: 700
 
-With GHCI there are tons of things you can do. First initialize it 
-    
+You can also just use a resource name :
+
+> $ puppetresources samplesite test.nod 'exec[apt_update]'
+> exec {
+>   "apt_update": #"samplesite/modules/apt/manifests/update.pp" (line 4, column 10)
+>       command     => "/usr/bin/apt-get update",
+>       logoutput   => "false",
+>       refreshonly => "true",
+>       returns     => 0,
+>       timeout     => 300,
+>       tries       => 1,
+>       try_sleep   => 0;
+> }
+
+With GHCI there are tons of things you can do. First initialize it
+
 >>> queryfunc <- initializedaemon "./samplesite/"
 
 You can now compute catalogs for various nodes.
@@ -103,6 +117,7 @@
 import Control.Monad
 import Control.Monad.Error (runErrorT)
 import Puppet.DSL.Printer
+import Data.Char (toLower)
 
 usage = error "Usage: puppetresource puppetdir nodename [filename]"
 
@@ -219,6 +234,14 @@
             Just (ResolvedString c)  -> putStrLn c
             Just x -> print x
 
+-- pretty print a resource
+-- if this resource has content, works like printContent
+printResource :: String -> String -> FinalCatalog -> IO ()
+printResource restype resname catalog =
+    case (Map.lookup (restype, resname) catalog) of
+        Nothing -> error $ "Resource " ++ restype ++ "[" ++ resname ++ "] does not exists."
+        Just r  -> putStrLn $ showFCatalog $ Map.singleton (restype, resname) r
+
 r2s :: ResolvedValue -> String
 r2s (ResolvedString x)  = x
 r2s x                   = show x
@@ -237,8 +260,20 @@
     when (length args == 1) (doparse  (head args))
     let (puppetdir, nodename) | (length args /= 2) && (length args /= 3) = usage
                               | otherwise = (args !! 0, args !! 1)
+        getresname :: String -> Maybe (String, String)
+        getresname r =
+            let isresname = ((head $ reverse r) == ']') && ('[' `elem` r)
+                (rtype, rname) = break (== '[') r
+            in if isresname
+                then Just (map toLower rtype, tail $ reverse $ (tail $ reverse rname))
+                else Nothing
+        handlePrintResource resname cat
+            = case (getresname resname) of
+                Just (t,n) -> printResource t n cat
+                Nothing    -> printContent resname cat
+
     queryfunc <- initializedaemon puppetdir
     x <- queryfunc nodename
     if length args == 3
-        then printContent (args !! 2) x
+        then handlePrintResource (args !! 2) x
         else putStrLn $ showFCatalog x
diff --git a/puppetresources.cabal b/puppetresources.cabal
--- a/puppetresources.cabal
+++ b/puppetresources.cabal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 -- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
 
 name:                puppetresources
-version:             0.1.2
+version:             0.1.3
 synopsis:            A program that displays the puppet resources associated to a node given .pp files.
 -- description:         
 license:             GPL-3