From ad3d3c7379a6538dea1d997e8aee0060f96b57e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serge van Ginderachter <serge@vanginderachter.be>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:32:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid multiple blank lines with --syntax-check

  Only print a blank line between plays when also doing --list-hosts and/or
  --list-tasks, otherwise this output just a long list of blank lines, one for
  each play.
---
 bin/ansible-playbook | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/ansible-playbook b/bin/ansible-playbook
index 27d920a81ef..96e87de3eb0 100755
--- a/bin/ansible-playbook
+++ b/bin/ansible-playbook
@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ def main(args):
                             if getattr(task, 'name', None) is not None:
                                 # meta tasks have no names
                                 print '    %s' % task.name
-                print ''
+                if options.listhosts or options.listtasks:
+                    print ''
             continue
 
         if options.syntax: