Added comment about long lines in playbooks

I had trouble finding this information, so though it was worth
adding to docs... but am not sure its easy to find for someone
specifically to find.  At least I think this inclusion matches the
tone of document, but maybe this info should go into a FAQ
instead/as-well?
pull/1648/head
Nigel Metheringham 12 years ago
parent 50abc73bd2
commit a457d24b97

@ -214,6 +214,14 @@ who's successful exit code is not zero, you may wish to do this::
- name: run this command and ignore the result
action: shell /usr/bin/somecommand && /bin/true
If the action line is getting too long for comfort you can break it on
a space and indent any continuation lines::
tasks:
- name: Copy ansible inventory file to client
action: copy src=/etc/ansible/hosts dest=/etc/ansible/hosts
owner=root group=root mode=0644
Variables can be used in action lines. Suppose you defined
a variable called 'vhost' in the 'vars' section, you could do this::

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