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. \" Title: ansible
. \" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
. \" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
. \" Date: 1 1/03 /2012
. \" Date: 1 2/04 /2012
. \" Manual: System administration commands
. \" Source: Ansible 0.9
. \" Language: English
. \"
.TH "ANSIBLE" "1" "11/03/2012" "Ansible 0\&.9" "System administration commands"
.TH "ANSIBLE" "1" "12/04/2012" "Ansible 0\&.9" "System administration commands"
. \" -----------------------------------------------------------------
. \" * Define some portability stuff
. \" -----------------------------------------------------------------
. \" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
. \" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
. \" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
. \" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.ie \n (.g .ds Aq \(aq
.el .ds Aq '
. \" -----------------------------------------------------------------
. \" * set default formatting
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@ -25,7 +34,7 @@ ansible \- run a command somewhere else
ansible <host\- pattern> [\- f forks] [\- m module_name] [\- a args]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.sp
\fB Ansible\fR is an extra\- simple tool/framework/API for doing \ 'remote things\' over SSH\& .
\fB Ansible\fR is an extra\- simple tool/framework/API for doing \ *(Aqremote things\* (Aq over SSH\& .
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.PP
\fB host\- pattern\fR
@ -73,7 +82,7 @@ to load modules from\&. The default is
\fI /usr/share/ansible\fR \& .
.RE
.PP
\fB \- a\fR \ '\fI ARGUMENTS\fR \' , \fB \- \- args=\fR \' \fI ARGUMENTS\fR \'
\fB \- a\fR \ *(Aq\fI ARGUMENTS\fR \* (Aq, \fB \- \- args=\fR \* (Aq\fI ARGUMENTS\fR \* (Aq
.RS 4
The
\fI ARGUMENTS\fR
@ -156,6 +165,11 @@ is mostly useful for crontab or kickstarts\&.
.RS 4
Further limits the selected host/group patterns\& .
.RE
.PP
\fB \- l\fR \fI ~REGEX\fR , \fB \- \- limit=\fR \fI ~REGEX\fR
.RS 4
Further limits hosts with a regex pattern\& .
.RE
.SH "INVENTORY"
.sp
Ansible stores the hosts it can potentially operate on in an inventory file\& . The syntax is one host per line\& . Groups headers are allowed and are included on their own line, enclosed in square brackets that start the line\& .