Access pillar.get indices from command line?

[Matthew Kettlewell]

In Salt ( using Jinja ), I can do something like this:

DNS2={{ salt['pillar.get']('nameservers')[1] }}

and on the minion, I can do this:

sudo salt-call pillar.get nameservers

and it will retrieve all of them ( plus a Local: heading)

Is there a way to directly access the values at a particular index?

something along the lines of this ( clearly not valid, but for demonstration) 

sudo salt-call pillar.get nameservers[1]

something tells me there's either a salt-call flag I'm missing, or a special syntax to access it that I've not found.

I know that I can do something like this, it just seems... clunky and wrong:

sudo salt-call pillar.get nameservers --out=key | awk 'NR==3 {print}'

Lead me a better path if you know it.

Thanks

Matt

[Daniel Wallace]

the best way to do it would be to use something like `jq` to query the json output.

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

[root@1a43ca0ff65e /]# salt-call --local grains.get fqdn
local:
    1a43ca0ff65e
[root@1a43ca0ff65e /]# salt-call --local grains.get fqdn --out=json | jq '.local'
"1a43ca0ff65e"

You can also use yq if you don't want to output as json.

https://github.com/kislyuk/yq

Alternatively, if you don't want to install something else, you could import the Python Client client and write a script in python to pull the information out.

Daniel

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