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diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/playbook_guide/playbooks_variables.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/playbook_guide/playbooks_variables.rst index ad31c0ea05..9482845dfd 100644 --- a/docs/docsite/rst/playbook_guide/playbooks_variables.rst +++ b/docs/docsite/rst/playbook_guide/playbooks_variables.rst @@ -331,14 +331,16 @@ When passing variables with ``--extra-vars``, you must escape quotes and other s ansible-playbook arcade.yml --extra-vars '{"name":"Conan O'\\\''Brien"}' ansible-playbook script.yml --extra-vars "{\"dialog\":\"He said \\\"I just can\'t get enough of those single and double-quotes"\!"\\\"\"}" -If you have a lot of special characters, use a JSON or YAML file containing the variable definitions. vars from a JSON or YAML file ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +If you have a lot of special characters, use a JSON or YAML file containing the variable definitions. Prepend both JSON and YAML filenames with `@`. + .. code-block:: text ansible-playbook release.yml --extra-vars "@some_file.json" + ansible-playbook release.yml --extra-vars "@some_file.yaml" .. _ansible_variable_precedence: |