# Reduce output of ansible-playbook command **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [July 3, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reduce-output-of-ansible-playbook-command/35459 "2021-07-03T14:12:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rolandm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rolandm/32/755_2.png) [@rolandm](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rolandm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reduce-output-of-ansible-playbook-command/35459/1 "2021-07-03T14:12:19Z")
Hello, is there some option to make ansible-playbook “quiet” about its own output and print only the explicit debug msg in line #17 . I tried to ‘use no\_log: True’ both on task and tasks level but it suppresses all output. Thanks in advance & BR, Roland ansible-playbook reduce\_output.yaml … ok: [localhost] =\> (item={‘path’: ‘/tmp/.X11-unix/X0’, ‘mode’: ‘0777’, ‘isdir’: False, ‘ischr’: False, ‘isblk’: False, ‘isreg’: False, ‘isfifo’: False, ‘islnk’: False, ‘issock’: True, ‘uid’: 0, ‘gid’: 0, ‘size’: 0, ‘inode’: 38, ‘dev’: 37, ‘nlink’: 1, ‘atime’: 1625305628.0993037, ‘mtime’: 1625305628.0993037, ‘ctime’: 1625305628.0993037, ‘gr\_name’: ‘root’, ‘pw\_name’: ‘root’, ‘wusr’: True, ‘rusr’: True, ‘xusr’: True, ‘wgrp’: True, ‘rgrp’: True, ‘xgrp’: True, ‘woth’: True, ‘roth’: True, ‘xoth’: True, ‘isuid’: False, ‘isgid’: False}) =\> { “msg”: “\* FILE: /tmp/.X11-unix/X0” } 1 — 2 - name: ‘playbook debugging output from find’ 3 hosts: localhost 4 gather\_facts: no 5 ##no\_log: True ##kills all output ☹ 6 7 tasks: 8 - name: find /tmp 9 find: 10 path: /tmp/ 11 file\_type: any # default: file 12 recurse: yes # default false 13 register: out 14 15 - name: list files line by line 16 debug: 17 msg: “\* FILE: {{ item.path }}” 18 with\_items: 19 - “{{ out.files }}” ---
**Author:** ![racke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/racke/32/4767_2.png) [@racke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/racke)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reduce-output-of-ansible-playbook-command/35459/2 "2021-07-03T15:01:59Z")
> Hello, > > is there some option to make ansible-playbook "quiet" about its own output and print only the explicit debug msg in line #17 . I tried to 'use no\_log: True' both on task and tasks level but it suppresses all output. > > Thanks in advance & BR, > Roland Hello Roland, did you try "no\_log: False" specifically for the debug task? Regards          Racke ---
**Author:** ![rolandm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rolandm/32/755_2.png) [@rolandm](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rolandm)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reduce-output-of-ansible-playbook-command/35459/3 "2021-07-04T07:12:32Z")
> > Hello, > > > > is there some option to make ansible-playbook “quiet” about its own output and print only the explicit debug msg in line #17 . I tried to ‘use no\_log: True’ both on task and tasks level but it suppresses all output. > > > > Thanks in advance & BR, > > Roland > > Hello Roland, > > did you try “no\_log: False” specifically for the debug task? > > Regards > Racke Hello Racke, yes, I did that too (as I mentioned in my previous message): It has following consequence. Thus, all debug output is suppressed and an item=None line is printed for every finding of find task. … TASK [list files line by line] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [localhost] =\> (item=None) ok: [localhost] =\> (item=None) ok: [localhost] =\> (item=None) … BR, Roland ---
**Author:** ![Erik\_Godding\_Boye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Erik\_Godding\_Boye](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Erik_Godding_Boye)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reduce-output-of-ansible-playbook-command/35459/4 "2021-07-04T14:03:16Z")
You could try loop\_control: [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user\_guide/playbooks\_loops.html#limiting-loop-output-with-label](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_loops.html#limiting-loop-output-with-label) ---
**Author:** ![rolandm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rolandm/32/755_2.png) [@rolandm](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rolandm)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/reduce-output-of-ansible-playbook-command/35459/5 "2021-07-04T19:52:53Z")
Hello Eric,