# ansible-playbook --start-at-task

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-start-at-task/12653>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 9, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-start-at-task/12653 "2013-04-09T05:58:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Seth\_Vidal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Seth\_Vidal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Seth_Vidal)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-start-at-task/12653/1 "2013-04-09T05:58:52Z")

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I posted a pull request:  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/2622](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/2622)

to implement --start-at-task. It uses the same infrastructure --step  
uses to skip over tasks.

usage:  
ansible-playbook --start-at-task="my task\*" playbook.yml

it will startup the playbook and skip over any task that doesn't  
fnmatch or exactly match the string in --start-at-task. Once it find  
that match it then runs all the tasks (unless you specify --step and  
then it prompts you).

I tested it a good bit and I think it works but I'd appreciate more  
eyes on it.

Thanks,  
-sv