Document host ranges (new in 0.6)

patterns.html

@@ -209,6 +209,12 @@ but they are useful.</p>
 after the hostname with a colon.</p>
 <blockquote>
 <div>four.example.com:5309</div></blockquote>
+<p>In 0.6 and later, if you have a lot of hosts following similar patterns you can do this:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">webservers</span><span class="p">]</span>
+<span class="n">www</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mo">01</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Leading zeros can be included or removed, as desired, and the ranges are inclusive.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="selecting-targets">
 <h2>Selecting Targets<a class="headerlink" href="#selecting-targets" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

rst/patterns.rst

@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ after the hostname with a colon.
 
     four.example.com:5309
 
+In 0.6 and later, if you have a lot of hosts following similar patterns you can do this::
+
+    [webservers]
+    www[01-50].example.com
+
+Leading zeros can be included or removed, as desired, and the ranges are inclusive.
+
 Selecting Targets
 +++++++++++++++++
 
@@ -81,7 +88,6 @@ It's also ok to mix wildcard patterns and groups at the same time::
 
     one*.com:dbservers
 
-
 Easy enough.  See :doc:`examples` and then :doc:`playbooks` for how to do things to selected hosts.
 
 Host Variables