Revert "Validate name argument for knife list"

This reverts commit c29b8da2b0353bb5d6e499b5d7cc79c0fadab9b3.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/knife/list.rb b/lib/chef/knife/list.rb
index 03e8cf199c..e5e196ecea 100644
--- a/lib/chef/knife/list.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/knife/list.rb
@@ -62,15 +62,10 @@ class Chef
       attr_accessor :exit_code
 
       def run
-
-        if name_args.length == 0
-          show_usage
-          ui.fatal("You must specify at least one argument. If you want to list everything in this directory, run \"knife list .\"")
-          exit 1
-        end
+        patterns = name_args.length == 0 ? [""] : name_args
 
         # Get the top-level matches
-        all_results = parallelize(pattern_args_from(name_args)) do |pattern|
+        all_results = parallelize(pattern_args_from(patterns)) do |pattern|
           pattern_results = Chef::ChefFS::FileSystem.list(config[:local] ? local_fs : chef_fs, pattern).to_a
 
           if pattern_results.first && !pattern_results.first.exists? && pattern.exact_path
diff --git a/spec/integration/knife/list_spec.rb b/spec/integration/knife/list_spec.rb
index 145464d6d1..9689c9e6c8 100644
--- a/spec/integration/knife/list_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/integration/knife/list_spec.rb
@@ -316,12 +316,8 @@ describe "knife list", :workstation do
         context "when cwd is at the top of the repository" do
           before { cwd "." }
 
-          it "knife list with no parameters reports an error" do
-            knife("list").should_fail "FATAL: You must specify at least one argument. If you want to list everything in this directory, run \"knife list .\"\n", stdout: /USAGE/
-          end
-
           it "knife list -Rfp returns everything" do
-            knife("list -Rfp .").should_succeed <<~EOM
+            knife("list -Rfp").should_succeed <<~EOM
               clients/
               clients/chef-validator.json
               clients/chef-webui.json
@@ -442,7 +438,7 @@ describe "knife list", :workstation do
           end
 
           it "knife list -Rfp returns cookbooks" do
-            knife("list -Rfp .").should_succeed <<~EOM
+            knife("list -Rfp").should_succeed <<~EOM
               cookbook1/
               cookbook1/metadata.rb
               cookbook2/
@@ -461,7 +457,7 @@ describe "knife list", :workstation do
           before { cwd "cookbooks/cookbook2" }
 
           it "knife list -Rfp returns cookbooks" do
-            knife("list -Rfp .").should_succeed <<~EOM
+            knife("list -Rfp").should_succeed <<~EOM
               metadata.rb
               recipes/
               recipes/default.rb
@@ -480,7 +476,7 @@ describe "knife list", :workstation do
           before { cwd "cookbooks" }
 
           it "knife list -Rfp returns cookbooks" do
-            knife("list -Rfp .").should_succeed <<~EOM
+            knife("list -Rfp").should_succeed <<~EOM
               cookbook1/
               cookbook1/metadata.rb
               cookbook2/
@@ -495,7 +491,7 @@ describe "knife list", :workstation do
           before { cwd "symlinked" }
 
           it "knife list -Rfp returns cookbooks" do
-            knife("list -Rfp .").should_succeed <<~EOM
+            knife("list -Rfp").should_succeed <<~EOM
               cookbook1/
               cookbook1/metadata.rb
               cookbook2/
@@ -517,7 +513,7 @@ describe "knife list", :workstation do
           before { cwd "real_cookbooks" }
 
           it "knife list -Rfp returns cookbooks" do
-            knife("list -Rfp .").should_succeed <<~EOM
+            knife("list -Rfp").should_succeed <<~EOM
               cookbook1/
               cookbook1/metadata.rb
               cookbook2/
@@ -532,7 +528,7 @@ describe "knife list", :workstation do
           before { cwd "cookbooks" }
 
           it "knife list -Rfp returns cookbooks" do
-            knife("list -Rfp .").should_succeed <<~EOM
+            knife("list -Rfp").should_succeed <<~EOM
               cookbook1/
               cookbook1/metadata.rb
               cookbook2/