NAME

       salt-call - salt-call Documentation

SYNOPSIS

          salt-call [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  salt-call  command  is  used  to  run module functions locally on a minion instead of
       executing them from the master.

OPTIONS

       --version
              Print the version of Salt that is running.

       --versions-report
              Show program's dependencies and version number, and then exit

       -h, --help
              Show the help message and exit

       -c CONFIG_DIR, --config-dir=CONFIG_dir
              The location of the Salt  configuration  directory.  This  directory  contains  the
              configuration  files  for  Salt  master  and  minions. The default location on most
              systems is /etc/salt.

       -g, --grains
              Return the information generated by the Salt grains

       -m MODULE_DIRS, --module-dirs=MODULE_DIRS
              Specify an additional directories to pull modules from, multiple directories can be
              delimited by commas

       -d, --doc, --documentation
              Return  the  documentation  for the specified module or for all modules if none are
              specified

       --master=MASTER
              Specify the master to use. The minion must be authenticated  with  the  master.  If
              this  option is omitted, the master options from the minion config will be used. If
              multi masters are set up the first listed master that responds will be used.

       --return RETURNER
              Set salt-call to pass the return data to one or many returner interfaces.   To  use
              many returner interfaces specify a comma delimited list of returners.

       --local
              Run salt-call locally, as if there was no master running.

   Logging Options
       Logging options which override any settings defined on the configuration files.

       -l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL
              Console logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error,
              quiet. Default: info.

       --log-file=LOG_FILE
              Log file path. Default: /var/log/salt/minion.

       --log-file-level=LOG_LEVEL_LOGFILE
              Logfile logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error,
              quiet. Default: info.

   Output Options
       --out  Pass  in an alternative outputter to display the return of data. This outputter can
              be any of the available outputters:
                 grains, highstate, json, key, overstatestage, pprint, raw, txt, yaml

              Some outputters are formatted only for data returned from specific  functions;  for
              instance, the grains outputter will not work for non-grains data.

              If  an  outputter  is used that does not support the data passed into it, then Salt
              will fall back on the pprint outputter and display the return data using the Python
              pprint standard library module.

              NOTE:
                 If  using  --out=json,  you  will  probably  want --static as well.  Without the
                 static option, you will get a JSON string for each minion.  This is due to using
                 an iterative outputter. So if you want to feed it to a JSON parser, use --static
                 as well.

       --out-indent OUTPUT_INDENT, --output-indent OUTPUT_INDENT
              Print the output indented by the provided value in spaces. Negative values  disable
              indentation. Only applicable in outputters that support indentation.

       --out-file=OUTPUT_FILE, --output-file=OUTPUT_FILE
              Write the output to the specified file.

       --no-color
              Disable all colored output

       --force-color
              Force colored output

SEE ALSO

       salt(1) salt-master(1) salt-minion(1)

AUTHOR

       Thomas S. Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> and many others, please see the Authors file

COPYRIGHT

       2013 SaltStack, Inc.