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| author | Jim Kleckner <jim@cloudphysics.com> | 2014-10-01 16:49:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Jim Kleckner <jim@cloudphysics.com> | 2014-10-01 16:49:33 -0700 |
| commit | 93ea3695402db3654fd277300ba00376afc3a851 (patch) | |
| tree | 6464f74a744d4ef524164e48567c2004560a7ddd /docsite | |
| parent | 43eb821d3f6564fad6bac78cd420d7ddd1f65a3c (diff) | |
| download | ansible-93ea3695402db3654fd277300ba00376afc3a851.tar.gz | |
Add doc of @filename in intro_patterns.rst
I noticed that the @filename notation for the --limit argument was not
conveniently described.
This patch adds a simple example to the intro_patterns.rst file.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docsite/rst/intro_patterns.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docsite/rst/intro_patterns.rst b/docsite/rst/intro_patterns.rst index 41e9affc81..7830c97c49 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/intro_patterns.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/intro_patterns.rst @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ While we're jumping a bit ahead, additionally, you can add an exclusion criteria ansible-playbook site.yml --limit datacenter2 +And if you want to read the list of hosts from a file, prefix the file name with '@'. Since Ansible 1.2:: + + ansible-playbook site.yml --limit @retry_hosts.txt + Easy enough. See :doc:`intro_adhoc` and then :doc:`playbooks` for how to apply this knowledge. .. seealso:: |