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# `salt-call`

## 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

`-h````,` `--help```

  Print a usage message briefly summarizing these command-line options

`-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```

  Return the documentation for the specified module or for all modules if none are specified

`-l` `LOG_LEVEL``,` `--log-level``=LOG_LEVEL`

  Console log level. One of `info`, `none`, `garbage`, `trace`, `warning`, `error`, `debug`. For the logfile settings see the config file. Default: `info`.

`--raw-out```

  Print the output from the salt command in raw Python form, this is suitable for re-reading the output into an executing Python script with eval.

`--text-out```

  Print the output from the salt command in the same form the shell would.

`--yaml-out```

  Print the output from the salt command in YAML.

`--json-out```

  Print the output from the salt command in JSON.

`--no-color```

  Disable all colored output

## See also

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

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