# how to comment multiple lines in ansible playbook

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-comment-multiple-lines-in-ansible-playbook/23510>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 19, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-comment-multiple-lines-in-ansible-playbook/23510 "2017-01-19T23:03:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jithendra\_myla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@jithendra\_myla](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jithendra_myla)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-comment-multiple-lines-in-ansible-playbook/23510/1 "2017-01-19T23:03:30Z")

</div>

how to comment multiple lines in ansible playbook

for line i just use #  
but to comment multiple line ?

Thank you  
-Jay

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [January 19, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-comment-multiple-lines-in-ansible-playbook/23510/2 "2017-01-19T23:17:42Z")

</div>

multiple # … playbooks are YAML, which does not have a multiline comment.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Shyam\_Yenna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Shyam\_Yenna](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shyam_Yenna)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-comment-multiple-lines-in-ansible-playbook/23510/3 "2017-01-20T16:26:18Z")

</div>

if your using linux machine. Use vi editor identify multi lines to comment and comment them

: set number  
:10,20s/^/#/

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jithendra\_myla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@jithendra\_myla](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jithendra_myla)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-comment-multiple-lines-in-ansible-playbook/23510/4 "2017-01-23T19:38:26Z")

</div>

Thank you Brian Coca

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jithendra\_myla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@jithendra\_myla](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jithendra_myla)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-comment-multiple-lines-in-ansible-playbook/23510/5 "2017-01-24T15:40:37Z")

</div>

Thank you Shyam, it works now

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Abhishek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@Abhishek\_Abhishek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Abhishek_Abhishek)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 7:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-comment-multiple-lines-in-ansible-playbook/23510/6 "2020-03-28T07:45:54Z")

</div>

Hi,

Is this because python doesn’t support multi line comment?

Regards,  
Abhishek

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-comment-multiple-lines-in-ansible-playbook/23510/7 "2020-03-28T14:15:07Z")

</div>

No that is entirely unrelated.