# ansible hides commands and output from user

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hides-commands-and-output-from-user/18491>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 13, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hides-commands-and-output-from-user/18491 "2015-06-13T13:06:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![user101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9a28c/32.png) [@user101](https://forum.ansible.com/u/user101)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hides-commands-and-output-from-user/18491/1 "2015-06-13T13:06:42Z")

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I know that ansible can not show realtime output of commands to user consle.  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3887](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3887)

But I want to see realtime output of commands.

@bcoca suggested me about ansible log.  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/11233](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/11233)

I tried.  
But ansible log is not realtime and does not contain output.

We must see shell comands, stdout and stderr.  
I hope ansible will support server side commands log.

Please imagine user who is new to Linux.  
The user never see commands, stdout and stderr in ansible world.  
That is not good.

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**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:** [June 13, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hides-commands-and-output-from-user/18491/2 "2015-06-13T19:38:56Z")

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you can register the result of shell/command, then the stdout/stderr  
will be in the variable, which you can then display using debug.