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-rw-r--r--changelogs/fragments/80506-syntax-check-playbook-only.yml3
-rw-r--r--lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py2
-rwxr-xr-xlib/ansible/cli/playbook.py2
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/80506-syntax-check-playbook-only.yml b/changelogs/fragments/80506-syntax-check-playbook-only.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed0f1b0bc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/80506-syntax-check-playbook-only.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- syntax check - Limit ``--syntax-check`` to ``ansible-playbook`` only, as that is the only CLI affected by this argument
+ (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/80506)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py b/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py
index cb37d57c19..a3efb1e268 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py
@@ -235,8 +235,6 @@ def add_check_options(parser):
"""Add options for commands which can run with diagnostic information of tasks"""
parser.add_argument("-C", "--check", default=False, dest='check', action='store_true',
help="don't make any changes; instead, try to predict some of the changes that may occur")
- parser.add_argument('--syntax-check', dest='syntax', action='store_true',
- help="perform a syntax check on the playbook, but do not execute it")
parser.add_argument("-D", "--diff", default=C.DIFF_ALWAYS, dest='diff', action='store_true',
help="when changing (small) files and templates, show the differences in those"
" files; works great with --check")
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/playbook.py b/lib/ansible/cli/playbook.py
index c94cf0ff77..9c091a675a 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/playbook.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/playbook.py
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ class PlaybookCLI(CLI):
opt_help.add_module_options(self.parser)
# ansible playbook specific opts
+ self.parser.add_argument('--syntax-check', dest='syntax', action='store_true',
+ help="perform a syntax check on the playbook, but do not execute it")
self.parser.add_argument('--list-tasks', dest='listtasks', action='store_true',
help="list all tasks that would be executed")
self.parser.add_argument('--list-tags', dest='listtags', action='store_true',