From 99ecd9f587ebbb972f406794a702f35fbba43d4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colton Myers <colton.myers@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 14:37:04 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Handle leading | in fileclient, Fix #5013

---
 salt/fileclient.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/salt/fileclient.py b/salt/fileclient.py
index 90863626a348..15c5357b7980 100644
--- a/salt/fileclient.py
+++ b/salt/fileclient.py
@@ -411,6 +411,9 @@ def _find_file(self, path, env='base'):
                'rel': ''}
         if env not in self.opts['file_roots']:
             return fnd
+        if path.startswith('|'):
+            # The path arguments are escaped
+            path = path[1:]
         for root in self.opts['file_roots'][env]:
             full = os.path.join(root, path)
             if os.path.isfile(full):