# ansible adhoc and run\_once how to ?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-adhoc-and-run-once-how-to/28623>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 21, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-adhoc-and-run-once-how-to/28623 "2018-09-21T04:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Narahari\_n\_Savitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Narahari\_n\_Savitha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narahari_n_Savitha)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-adhoc-and-run-once-how-to/28623/1 "2018-09-21T04:14:53Z")

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Thank you in advance for your time and help.

In ansible adhoc command how do I specify run\_once ?

I can do that in ansible playbook but adhoc I dont now how to do that.

Any suggestions is very helpful.

-Narahari

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-adhoc-and-run-once-how-to/28623/2 "2018-09-21T05:38:02Z")

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run\_once is the same as just specifying one(1) host.

If you have a group like webserver

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ansible webserver -m ping

you can specify one host like so

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ansible webserver[0] -m ping

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**Author:** ![Narahari\_n\_Savitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Narahari\_n\_Savitha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narahari_n_Savitha)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-adhoc-and-run-once-how-to/28623/3 "2018-09-21T12:28:37Z")

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Thank you so much. Did not know I could index groups. Appreciate your help very much.

-Narahari