Looks OK to remove the escaping.

$ salt tantalum cmd.run 'rm -frv /tmp/*'
[WARNING ] The user 'dan' is not allowed to write to
'/var/log/salt/master'. The log file will be stored in
'~/.salt/'master'.log'
tantalum:
    removed directory: `/tmp/pear/temp'
    removed `/tmp/pear/download/PDO-1.0.3.tgz'
    removed directory: `/tmp/pear/download'
    removed `/tmp/pear/cache/d10dbbfc02e180eb9dd0dd959344e1e1rest.cachefile'
    removed `/tmp/pear/cache/d10dbbfc02e180eb9dd0dd959344e1e1rest.cacheid'
    removed `/tmp/pear/cache/4f332c7063f83f14521f130df91952barest.cachefile'
    removed `/tmp/pear/cache/027a88f4df1f4119259ca0c43d276ac6rest.cachefile'
    removed `/tmp/pear/cache/027a88f4df1f4119259ca0c43d276ac6rest.cacheid'
    removed `/tmp/pear/cache/f262af224e08078d4133f3c3206f71aarest.cacheid'
    removed `/tmp/pear/cache/f262af224e08078d4133f3c3206f71aarest.cachefile'
    removed `/tmp/pear/cache/4f332c7063f83f14521f130df91952barest.cacheid'
    removed directory: `/tmp/pear/cache'
    removed directory: `/tmp/pear'



On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Henrik Holmboe
<notifications@github.com>wrote:

> In doc/topics/reactor/index.rst:
>
> > @@ -143,7 +150,7 @@ command:
> >
> >  .. code-block:: bash
> >
> > -    salt '*' cmd.run 'rm -rf /tmp/*'
> > +    salt '\*' cmd.run 'rm -rf /tmp/\*'
>
> I'm not sure about the second one either. Perhaps it doesn't matter? Try
> it.
>
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