# list-tasks function won't work with skip-tags **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 27, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/list-tasks-function-wont-work-with-skip-tags/17634 "2015-02-27T11:22:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![operations.v3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@operations.v3d](https://forum.ansible.com/u/operations.v3d)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/list-tasks-function-wont-work-with-skip-tags/17634/1 "2015-02-27T11:22:45Z")
Hi all, I am trying to know which tasks will be played with the **–list-tasks** option. I want also to specified tags to be skipped with **–skip-tags**. The use of these two options produce strange behavior. To illustrate: I have on playbook ‘site.yml’ with 3 plays: - play1: contain tag1 tasks and untag tasks - play2: contain untag tasks - play3: contain tag2 tasks If I run: `ansible-playbook -i inventoryFile site.yml --list-tasks -skip-tags "tag1,tag2"` I don’t have any plays planned to be played. If I run: `ansible-playbook -i inventoryFile site.yml --list-tasks -skip-tags "tag1"` I will only see tasks of the play1 wihout tag1. What about the play2 and play3 ? If I run: `ansible-playbook -i inventoryFile site.yml --list-tasks -skip-tags "tag2"` I will only see tasks of the play3 wihout tag2. What about the play2 and play1 ? Furthermore, if I run: `ansible-playbook -i inventoryFile site.yml --list-tasks` I will see all tasks and all plays, even if there is no host configured for the play Am I missing something ? ---
**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:** [March 4, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/list-tasks-function-wont-work-with-skip-tags/17634/2 "2015-03-04T14:51:49Z")
Can you try against the current development version? tagging and list-tasks had several fixes go in.