Helpful Referecens that I use all the time 

- http://salt.readthedocs.org/en/v0.17.5/ref/modules/all/  (builtin execution modules)
- http://salt.readthedocs.org/en/v0.17.5/ref/states/all/   (builtin state modules)

Note: Change the version above on the URL accordingly 

builtin execution modules:
  Those I normally used when executing a salt cli command such as the examples below
  
builtin state modules:
  Those are normally used when writing/creating a state file


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Useful salt CLI Flags 
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 -t TIMEOUT, --timeout=
 -b BATCH, --batch=BATCH, --batch-size=BATCH
 --out=OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT  

* Depending what I'm retrieving from several minions I sometimes use --out=txt so I can get one liners back that can be compared
 

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- Using Grain target & grains execution module
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$ salt -t 15 -G 'stype:data' --out=txt grains.item roles


 
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- Compound with grains (G)
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$ salt -t 10  -C "G@roles:account and G@stype:synnex" 



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- Move roles grain from minion to grains file
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sudo salt '*' --out=txt grains.append roles nada
sudo salt '*' cmd.run  "sed  -i -e '/roles/,+10d' /etc/salt/minion"
sudo salt '*' --out=txt grains.remove roles nada