# Dump Variables - BROKEN

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/dump-variables-broken/21584>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 27, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dump-variables-broken/21584 "2016-05-27T15:21:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dump-variables-broken/21584/1 "2016-05-27T15:21:51Z")

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Prior to 2.0, I used a task that dumped Ansible variables to an output file using a template.

This technique was super valuable for debugging.

The template looked like this:

HOST Variables (“hostvars”):

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**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dump-variables-broken/21584/2 "2016-05-27T15:34:14Z")

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I usually just run something like this:

ansible -m debug -a “var=hostvars[‘interesting\_host’]” localhost -i test\_inventory

Hope this helps,

Jon