Ansible Guide: The Ad-Hoc Command | Linux Today

Ansible Guide: The Ad-Hoc Command

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Muhammad Arul
May 2, 2019

The Ad-Hoc command is the one-liner ansible command that performs one task on the target host. It allows you to execute simple one-line task against one or group of hosts defined in the inventory file configuration.

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