# skipping does not show for lists

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/skipping-does-not-show-for-lists/29888>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 14, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/skipping-does-not-show-for-lists/29888 "2019-03-14T16:41:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jyanga](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jyanga/32/8108_2.png) [@jyanga](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jyanga)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/skipping-does-not-show-for-lists/29888/1 "2019-03-14T16:41:56Z")

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Here are some background info.

Ansible Version: 2.7.8

Created a file and folder structure with the commands below.

TEMP=“/data”  
mkdir -p $TEMP/dir{1,2}  
touch $TEMP/file{1,2}.txt  
touch $TEMP/file{3,4}.lst.txt  
touch $TEMP/dir{1,2}/file{1,2}.txt  
touch $TEMP/dir{1,2}/file{3,4}.lst.txt

The resulting file and folder structure will be as follows.

# ls -lhR $TEMP

/data:  
total 0  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 82 Mar 14 16:37 dir1  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 82 Mar 14 16:37 dir2  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file1.txt  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file2.txt  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file3.lst.txt  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file4.lst.txt

/data/dir1:  
total 0  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file1.txt  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file2.txt  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file3.lst.txt  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file4.lst.txt

/data/dir2:  
total 0  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file1.txt  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file2.txt  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file3.lst.txt  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 16:37 file4.lst.txt

Here is the contents of the playbook.