Disable fact gathering as a command line option

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Is there a way to disable fact gathering at the command line?
I couldn’t find this anywhere in the docs.

As a use case, I sometimes want to run a tag with two or 3 tasks that don’t require fact gathering and I don’t want to disable it on a playbook level.
Maybe there is something I’m missing, please let me know if I’m thinking about this correctly.

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Hi Jad,

“ANSIBLE_GATHERING” environment variable has same function as “gathering” ansible.cfg option:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#default-gathering

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Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks