# Handy playbook for running given role

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/handy-playbook-for-running-given-role/19989>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 11, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/handy-playbook-for-running-given-role/19989 "2015-12-11T13:06:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_Totterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Paul\_Totterman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Totterman)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/handy-playbook-for-running-given-role/19989/1 "2015-12-11T13:06:27Z")

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Hi,

This may come in handy at some point:

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# vim: set ft=yaml:

# usage: ansible-playbook -e role=somerole role.yml