# $# in Unix and In Ansible any way to find out The number of arguments supplied to a Ansible Playbook

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**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/in-unix-and-in-ansible-any-way-to-find-out-the-number-of-arguments-supplied-to-a-ansible-playbook/26129/1 "2017-11-24T17:48:44Z")

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$# --The number of arguments supplied to a script

Example :- ./test.sh 1 2 3 4 → $# = value will be 4

ansible-playbook main.yml -e “Var1=1 Var2= 2Var3=3 Var4=4”

How can we get a total number of arguments?