On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:46:38AM +0200, Denis Witt wrote: || I expect the program (salt) to see exactly '*' (single quote, asterisk, || single quote).
You may expect so, but salt does not. || See examples of the salt-syntax here: || http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/targeting/globbing.html This line: You must wrap salt calls that use globbing in single-quotes to prevent the shell from expanding the globs before Salt is invoked. implies that salt does *not* want to see the single quotes: they are there to prevent the *shell* from expanding the asterisk, but the shell removes the quotes before passing the argument to salt. || At the moment i can't see any way how to do this. || || machines="'*'" || salt $machines || salt ${machines} || salt "${machines} || salt "${machines}" || not working All these will pass the single quotes to salt which is wrong. #3 also misses the closing double quote. || machines='*' || salt $machines || salt ${machines} || salt "${machines} || salt "$machines" || not working #4 should work. The value of the machine variable does not have the single quotes. It turns out that without double quotes, the shell first expands the variable, then expands the filename pattern (which is a single asterisk). The double quotes prevent filename expansion. || salt '*' || works fine Yes. The single quotes prevent filename expansion, but get stripped by the shell, so salt sees the asterisk only. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <vinc...@zweije.nl> | "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?" [Xhost should be taken out and shot] | -- Paul Tomblin on a.s.r.
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