salt.modules.archive

A module to wrap (non-Windows) archive calls

salt.modules.archive.cmd_unzip(zip_file, dest, excludes=None, options=None, template=None, runas=None, trim_output=False, password=None)

New in version 2015.5.0: In versions 2014.7.x and earlier, this function was known as archive.unzip.

Uses the unzip command to unpack zip files. This command is part of the Info-ZIP suite of tools, and is typically packaged as simply unzip.

zip_file

Path of zip file to be unpacked

dest

The destination directory into which the file should be unpacked

excludes : None

Comma-separated list of files not to unpack. Can also be passed in a Python list.

template : None

Can be set to 'jinja' or another supported template engine to render the command arguments before execution:

salt '*' archive.cmd_unzip template=jinja /tmp/zipfile.zip '/tmp/{{grains.id}}' excludes=file_1,file_2

options

Optional when using zip archives, ignored when usign other archives files. This is mostly used to overwrite exsiting files with o. This options are only used when unzip binary is used.

New in version 2016.3.1.

runas : None

Unpack the zip file as the specified user. Defaults to the user under which the minion is running.

New in version 2015.5.0.

trim_output : False

The number of files we should output on success before the rest are trimmed, if this is set to True then it will default to 100

password

Password to use with password protected zip files

Note

This is not considered secure. It is recommended to instead use archive.unzip for password-protected ZIP files. If a password is used here, then the unzip command run to extract the ZIP file will not show up in the minion log like most shell commands Salt runs do. However, the password will still be present in the events logged to the minion log at the debug log level. If the minion is logging at debug (or more verbose), then be advised that the password will appear in the log.

New in version 2016.11.0.

CLI Example:

salt '*' archive.cmd_unzip /tmp/zipfile.zip /home/strongbad/ excludes=file_1,file_2

salt.modules.archive.cmd_zip(zip_file, sources, template=None, cwd=None, runas=None)

New in version 2015.5.0: In versions 2014.7.x and earlier, this function was known as archive.zip.

Uses the zip command to create zip files. This command is part of the Info-ZIP suite of tools, and is typically packaged as simply zip.

zip_file

Path of zip file to be created

sources

Comma-separated list of sources to include in the zip file. Sources can also be passed in a Python list.

Changed in version 2017.7.0: Globbing is now supported for this argument

template : None

Can be set to 'jinja' or another supported template engine to render the command arguments before execution:

salt '*' archive.cmd_zip template=jinja /tmp/zipfile.zip /tmp/sourcefile1,/tmp/{{grains.id}}.txt

cwd : None

Use this argument along with relative paths in sources to create zip files which do not contain the leading directories. If not specified, the zip file will be created as if the cwd was /, and creating a zip file of /foo/bar/baz.txt will contain the parent directories foo and bar. To create a zip file containing just baz.txt, the following command would be used:

salt '*' archive.cmd_zip /tmp/baz.zip baz.txt cwd=/foo/bar

New in version 2014.7.1.

runas : None

Create the zip file as the specified user. Defaults to the user under which the minion is running.

New in version 2015.5.0.

CLI Example:

salt '*' archive.cmd_zip /tmp/zipfile.zip /tmp/sourcefile1,/tmp/sourcefile2
# Globbing for sources (2017.7.0 and later)
salt '*' archive.cmd_zip /tmp/zipfile.zip '/tmp/sourcefile*'

salt.modules.archive.gunzip(gzipfile, template=None, runas=None, options=None)

Uses the gunzip command to unpack gzip files

template : None

Can be set to 'jinja' or another supported template engine to render the command arguments before execution:

salt '*' archive.gunzip template=jinja /tmp/{{grains.id}}.txt.gz

runas : None

The user with which to run the gzip command line

options : None

Pass any additional arguments to gzip

New in version 2016.3.4.

CLI Example:

# Create /tmp/sourcefile.txt
salt '*' archive.gunzip /tmp/sourcefile.txt.gz
salt '*' archive.gunzip /tmp/sourcefile.txt options='--verbose'

salt.modules.archive.gzip(sourcefile, template=None, runas=None, options=None)

Uses the gzip command to create gzip files

template : None

Can be set to 'jinja' or another supported template engine to render the command arguments before execution:

salt '*' archive.gzip template=jinja /tmp/{{grains.id}}.txt

runas : None

The user with which to run the gzip command line

options : None

Pass any additional arguments to gzip

New in version 2016.3.4.

CLI Example:

# Create /tmp/sourcefile.txt.gz
salt '*' archive.gzip /tmp/sourcefile.txt
salt '*' archive.gzip /tmp/sourcefile.txt options='-9 --verbose'

salt.modules.archive.is_encrypted(name, clean=False, saltenv='base', source_hash=None)

New in version 2016.11.0.

Returns True if the zip archive is password-protected, False if not. If the specified file is not a ZIP archive, an error will be raised.

name

The path / URL of the archive to check.

clean : False

Set this value to True to delete the path referred to by name once the contents have been listed. This option should be used with care.

Note

If there is an error listing the archive's contents, the cached file will not be removed, to allow for troubleshooting.

saltenv : base

Specifies the fileserver environment from which to retrieve archive. This is only applicable when archive is a file from the salt:// fileserver.

source_hash

If name is an http(s)/ftp URL and the file exists in the minion's file cache, this option can be passed to keep the minion from re-downloading the archive if the cached copy matches the specified hash.

New in version 2018.3.0.

CLI Examples:

salt '*' archive.is_encrypted /path/to/myfile.zip
salt '*' archive.is_encrypted salt://foo.zip
salt '*' archive.is_encrypted salt://foo.zip saltenv=dev
salt '*' archive.is_encrypted https://domain.tld/myfile.zip clean=True
salt '*' archive.is_encrypted https://domain.tld/myfile.zip source_hash=f1d2d2f924e986ac86fdf7b36c94bcdf32beec15
salt '*' archive.is_encrypted ftp://10.1.2.3/foo.zip

salt.modules.archive.list_(name, archive_format=None, options=None, strip_components=None, clean=False, verbose=False, saltenv='base', source_hash=None)

New in version 2016.11.0.

Changed in version 2016.11.2: The rarfile Python module is now supported for listing the contents of rar archives. This is necessary on minions with older releases of the rar CLI tool, which do not support listing the contents in a parsable format.

List the files and directories in an tar, zip, or rar archive.

Note

This function will only provide results for XZ-compressed archives if the xz CLI command is available, as Python does not at this time natively support XZ compression in its tarfile module. Keep in mind however that most Linux distros ship with xz already installed.

To check if a given minion has xz, the following Salt command can be run:

salt minion_id cmd.which xz

If None is returned, then xz is not present and must be installed. It is widely available and should be packaged as either xz or xz-utils.

name

Path/URL of archive

archive_format

Specify the format of the archive (tar, zip, or rar). If this argument is omitted, the archive format will be guessed based on the value of the name parameter.

options

For tar archives only. This function will, by default, try to use the tarfile module from the Python standard library to get a list of files/directories. If this method fails, then it will fall back to using the shell to decompress the archive to stdout and pipe the results to tar -tf - to produce a list of filenames. XZ-compressed archives are already supported automatically, but in the event that the tar archive uses a different sort of compression not supported natively by tarfile, this option can be used to specify a command that will decompress the archive to stdout. For example:

salt minion_id archive.list /path/to/foo.tar.gz options='gzip --decompress --stdout'

Note

It is not necessary to manually specify options for gzip'ed archives, as gzip compression is natively supported by tarfile.

strip_components

This argument specifies a number of top-level directories to strip from the results. This is similar to the paths that would be extracted if --strip-components (or --strip) were used when extracting tar archives.

New in version 2016.11.2.

clean : False

Set this value to True to delete the path referred to by name once the contents have been listed. This option should be used with care.

Note

If there is an error listing the archive's contents, the cached file will not be removed, to allow for troubleshooting.

verbose : False

If False, this function will return a list of files/dirs in the archive. If True, it will return a dictionary categorizing the paths into separate keys containing the directory names, file names, and also directories/files present in the top level of the archive.

Changed in version 2016.11.2: This option now includes symlinks in their own list. Before, they were included with files.

saltenv : base

Specifies the fileserver environment from which to retrieve archive. This is only applicable when archive is a file from the salt:// fileserver.

source_hash

If name is an http(s)/ftp URL and the file exists in the minion's file cache, this option can be passed to keep the minion from re-downloading the archive if the cached copy matches the specified hash.

New in version 2018.3.0.

CLI Examples:

salt '*' archive.list /path/to/myfile.tar.gz
salt '*' archive.list /path/to/myfile.tar.gz strip_components=1
salt '*' archive.list salt://foo.tar.gz
salt '*' archive.list https://domain.tld/myfile.zip
salt '*' archive.list https://domain.tld/myfile.zip source_hash=f1d2d2f924e986ac86fdf7b36c94bcdf32beec15
salt '*' archive.list ftp://10.1.2.3/foo.rar

salt.modules.archive.rar(rarfile, sources, template=None, cwd=None, runas=None)

Uses rar for Linux to create rar files

rarfile

Path of rar file to be created

sources

Comma-separated list of sources to include in the rar file. Sources can also be passed in a Python list.

Changed in version 2017.7.0: Globbing is now supported for this argument

cwd : None

Run the rar command from the specified directory. Use this argument along with relative file paths to create rar files which do not contain the leading directories. If not specified, this will default to the home directory of the user under which the salt minion process is running.

New in version 2014.7.1.

template : None

Can be set to 'jinja' or another supported template engine to render the command arguments before execution:

salt '*' archive.rar template=jinja /tmp/rarfile.rar '/tmp/sourcefile1,/tmp/{{grains.id}}.txt'

CLI Example:

salt '*' archive.rar /tmp/rarfile.rar /tmp/sourcefile1,/tmp/sourcefile2
# Globbing for sources (2017.7.0 and later)
salt '*' archive.rar /tmp/rarfile.rar '/tmp/sourcefile*'

salt.modules.archive.tar(options, tarfile, sources=None, dest=None, cwd=None, template=None, runas=None)

Note

This function has changed for version 0.17.0. In prior versions, the cwd and template arguments must be specified, with the source directories/files coming as a space-separated list at the end of the command. Beginning with 0.17.0, sources must be a comma-separated list, and the cwd and template arguments are optional.

Uses the tar command to pack, unpack, etc. tar files

options

Options to pass to the tar command

Changed in version 2015.8.0: The mandatory - prefixing has been removed. An options string beginning with a --long-option, would have uncharacteristically needed its first - removed under the former scheme.

Also, tar will parse its options differently if short options are used with or without a preceding -, so it is better to not confuse the user into thinking they're using the non-- format, when really they are using the with-- format.

tarfile

The filename of the tar archive to pack/unpack

sources

Comma delimited list of files to pack into the tarfile. Can also be passed as a Python list.

Changed in version 2017.7.0: Globbing is now supported for this argument

dest

The destination directory into which to unpack the tarfile

cwd : None

The directory in which the tar command should be executed. If not specified, will default to the home directory of the user under which the salt minion process is running.

template : None

Can be set to 'jinja' or another supported template engine to render the command arguments before execution:

salt '*' archive.tar cjvf /tmp/salt.tar.bz2 {{grains.saltpath}} template=jinja

CLI Examples:

# Create a tarfile
salt '*' archive.tar cjvf /tmp/tarfile.tar.bz2 /tmp/file_1,/tmp/file_2
# Create a tarfile using globbing (2017.7.0 and later)
salt '*' archive.tar cjvf /tmp/tarfile.tar.bz2 '/tmp/file_*'
# Unpack a tarfile
salt '*' archive.tar xf foo.tar dest=/target/directory

salt.modules.archive.unrar(rarfile, dest, excludes=None, template=None, runas=None, trim_output=False)

Uses rar for Linux to unpack rar files

rarfile

Name of rar file to be unpacked

dest

The destination directory into which to unpack the rar file

template : None

Can be set to 'jinja' or another supported template engine to render the command arguments before execution:

salt '*' archive.unrar template=jinja /tmp/rarfile.rar /tmp/{{grains.id}}/ excludes=file_1,file_2

trim_output : False

The number of files we should output on success before the rest are trimmed, if this is set to True then it will default to 100

CLI Example:

salt '*' archive.unrar /tmp/rarfile.rar /home/strongbad/ excludes=file_1,file_2

salt.modules.archive.unzip(zip_file, dest, excludes=None, options=None, template=None, runas=None, trim_output=False, password=None, extract_perms=True)

Uses the zipfile Python module to unpack zip files

Changed in version 2015.5.0: This function was rewritten to use Python's native zip file support. The old functionality has been preserved in the new function archive.cmd_unzip. For versions 2014.7.x and earlier, see the archive.cmd_zip documentation.

zip_file

Path of zip file to be unpacked

dest

The destination directory into which the file should be unpacked

excludes : None

Comma-separated list of files not to unpack. Can also be passed in a Python list.

options

This options are only used when unzip binary is used. In this function is ignored.

New in version 2016.3.1.

template : None

Can be set to 'jinja' or another supported template engine to render the command arguments before execution:

salt '*' archive.unzip template=jinja /tmp/zipfile.zip /tmp/{{grains.id}}/ excludes=file_1,file_2

runas : None

Unpack the zip file as the specified user. Defaults to the user under which the minion is running.

trim_output : False

The number of files we should output on success before the rest are trimmed, if this is set to True then it will default to 100

CLI Example:

salt '*' archive.unzip /tmp/zipfile.zip /home/strongbad/ excludes=file_1,file_2

password

Password to use with password protected zip files

Note

The password will be present in the events logged to the minion log file at the debug log level. If the minion is logging at debug (or more verbose), then be advised that the password will appear in the log.

New in version 2016.3.0.

extract_perms : True

The Python zipfile module does not extract file/directory attributes by default. When this argument is set to True, Salt will attempt to apply the file permission attributes to the extracted files/folders.

On Windows, only the read-only flag will be extracted as set within the zip file, other attributes (i.e. user/group permissions) are ignored.

Set this argument to False to disable this behavior.

New in version 2016.11.0.

CLI Example:

salt '*' archive.unzip /tmp/zipfile.zip /home/strongbad/ password='BadPassword'

salt.modules.archive.zip_(zip_file, sources, template=None, cwd=None, runas=None, zip64=False)

Uses the zipfile Python module to create zip files

Changed in version 2015.5.0: This function was rewritten to use Python's native zip file support. The old functionality has been preserved in the new function archive.cmd_zip. For versions 2014.7.x and earlier, see the archive.cmd_zip documentation.

zip_file

Path of zip file to be created

sources

Comma-separated list of sources to include in the zip file. Sources can also be passed in a Python list.

Changed in version 2017.7.0: Globbing is now supported for this argument

template : None

Can be set to 'jinja' or another supported template engine to render the command arguments before execution:

salt '*' archive.zip template=jinja /tmp/zipfile.zip /tmp/sourcefile1,/tmp/{{grains.id}}.txt

cwd : None

Use this argument along with relative paths in sources to create zip files which do not contain the leading directories. If not specified, the zip file will be created as if the cwd was /, and creating a zip file of /foo/bar/baz.txt will contain the parent directories foo and bar. To create a zip file containing just baz.txt, the following command would be used:

salt '*' archive.zip /tmp/baz.zip baz.txt cwd=/foo/bar

runas : None

Create the zip file as the specified user. Defaults to the user under which the minion is running.

zip64 : False

Used to enable ZIP64 support, necessary to create archives larger than 4 GByte in size. If true, will create ZIP file with the ZIPp64 extension when the zipfile is larger than 2 GB. ZIP64 extension is disabled by default in the Python native zip support because the default zip and unzip commands on Unix (the InfoZIP utilities) don't support these extensions.

CLI Example:

salt '*' archive.zip /tmp/zipfile.zip /tmp/sourcefile1,/tmp/sourcefile2
# Globbing for sources (2017.7.0 and later)
salt '*' archive.zip /tmp/zipfile.zip '/tmp/sourcefile*'