Viewing Parsed Salt State Files

The state files for everything include a lot of Jinja2-like template includes, if statements, etc. I’m trying to learn how to create my own state files and thought it would be easier to figure things out if I could see the state files after they run through the template bindings. Is there any way I can save the parsed .sls and .top files so I can see what they look like before they are applied?

Not really save as sls file, but there is state.show_lowstate function that does similar thing. Simply call it instead of state.highstate and you should get the info.

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