# ansible fact availability **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 3, 2014, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-fact-availability/16947 "2014-12-03T11:34:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Steve\_Kieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Steve\_Kieu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steve_Kieu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-fact-availability/16947/1 "2014-12-03T11:34:32Z")
Hi all, I have in my hosts file COUNTRY\_SUFFIX=“{{ansible\_hostname}}” It works fine when I use ansible-playbook and play the book with some roles. But if I run as adhoc command like this ansible -i hosts hostname -u user -k -mdebug -a’msg={{COUNTRY\_SUFFIX}}’ then asible says ansible\_hostname is not defined. anybody knows why? thanks ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-fact-availability/16947/2 "2014-12-03T13:06:34Z")
ad hoc commands do not gather facts, which is what sets ansible\_hostname, this is an expected result ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-fact-availability/16947/3 "2014-12-03T16:15:27Z")
Sounds like he’s discussing a variable in his inventory file and not a fact, though. However, it’s more apt to say that template expressions are not evaluated in ad-hoc commands. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-fact-availability/16947/4 "2014-12-03T16:36:52Z")
Nevermind, this is indeed ansible\_hostname, which is not available because it’s a fact – sorry! ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-fact-availability/16947/5 "2014-12-03T16:55:15Z")
micheal's other point still stands, ad-hoc does not do any templating, so even if you had the var it would not work. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Kieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Steve\_Kieu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steve_Kieu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-fact-availability/16947/6 "2014-12-03T23:09:46Z")
It is not true. If I run adhoc command and using variable defined in inventory it works fine. So ansible does not get facts only, but these variable defiend in hosts and host\_vars and magic var like inventory\_hostname works. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-fact-availability/16947/7 "2014-12-03T23:19:51Z")
Yeah I think I remember the template commit. (But it’s not going to gather facts first, because facts are a playbook concept) The v2/ tree effort is essentially going to make “in memory” playbooks for ad hoc commands so might make this easy with a --gather-facts switch in the future or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Kieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Steve\_Kieu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steve_Kieu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-fact-availability/16947/8 "2014-12-03T23:30:18Z")
Thank you all for helping … Yeah it would be great if it gather facts too, but currently I switch to use magic vars which works as well. cheers