systemctl: process all units matched by a glob in the cat verb by default

Originally, `systemctl cat` would match only active units, for example:

$ systemctl cat sshd.service

would cat the sshd.service unit file even if the service was inactive.
However:

$ systemctl cat ssh*

would show it only if it was active.

Let's unify the behavior and cat all unit files regardless of a state,
if no state was given explicitly to filter.

diff --git a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
index 0574a9f4cebc2a3ea1039c9754027ca3c4b48a6e..cca150830979a317eca98b14434bae6eb1c8929a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
+++ b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
@@ -5865,6 +5865,11 @@ static int cat(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
         bool first = true;
         int r;
 
+        /* Include all units by default - i.e. continue as if the --all
+         * option was used */
+        if (strv_isempty(arg_states))
+                arg_all = true;
+
         if (arg_transport != BUS_TRANSPORT_LOCAL)
                 return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "Cannot remotely cat units.");