# 3 simple questions

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/3-simple-questions/13154>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 18, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/3-simple-questions/13154 "2013-07-18T14:51:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Palmer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Eric\_Palmer1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Eric_Palmer1)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/3-simple-questions/13154/1 "2013-07-18T14:51:50Z")

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Sorry if this is obvious but I’m having problems finding this info

For playbooks

1. is there an easy way, without changing the verbose level, to echo to stdout the value of a variable or variable structure (json)
2. what is the variable name that contains the hostname being processed
3. what is the vaiable name for the keyfile path/filename

thanks

Eric

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/3-simple-questions/13154/2 "2013-07-18T14:54:04Z")

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1. debug module “debug: msg={{var}}”
2. inventory\_hostname
3. ?

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**Author:** ![Eric\_Palmer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Eric\_Palmer1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Eric_Palmer1)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/3-simple-questions/13154/3 "2013-07-18T14:55:16Z")

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thanks Brian

eric