Executing Command

Idem-posix plugin allows to execute commands on a posix systems and return the output as a string.

Example of using cmd.run state in SLS:

# Execute "ls -l" command
my_state_name:
  cmd.run:
    cmd: ls -l
    cwd: /
    shell: False
    env:
      ENV_VAR_1: ENV_VAL_1
      ENV_VAR_2: ENV_VAL_2
    timeout: 100
    render_pipe:
    kwargs:

Example of using cmd.run with Idem CLI:

idem exec cmd.run "shell command --with-flags" cwd=/home render_pipe=json timeout=10