# Bug in top-level playbook: tags broken

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/bug-in-top-level-playbook-tags-broken/18539>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 18, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bug-in-top-level-playbook-tags-broken/18539 "2015-06-18T10:19:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@jang](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jang)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bug-in-top-level-playbook-tags-broken/18539/1 "2015-06-18T10:19:56Z")

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See the attachment. With ansible 1.7.2 this works as expected:

% ansible-playbook --version  
ansible-playbook 1.7.2  
% ansible-playbook -i hosts/localhost a.yml --tags b

PLAY [localhost]

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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 18, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bug-in-top-level-playbook-tags-broken/18539/2 "2015-06-18T17:14:31Z")

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known issue [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9862](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9862)