# \--step option for ansible-playbook **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [May 16, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/step-option-for-ansible-playbook/15256 "2014-05-16T16:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Petr\_Sukharev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Petr\_Sukharev](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Petr_Sukharev)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/step-option-for-ansible-playbook/15256/1 "2014-05-16T16:37:45Z")
Hello! Simple question - does letter “c” in --step mode means “cancel” or “continue”? 🙂 Today i try to deploy some single task from role to my test hosts and use --start-at-task plus --step. After 3 steps i made all changes and was ready to stop playbook execution. I was absolute sure, than y/n/c means “yes” “no” “cancel”, but “c” run all lower tasks (no yes or no choise). God bless “when” option for role 🙂 All my test enviroment is save Now i try to find some special information about this option and cant find nothing in docs… ---
**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/step-option-for-ansible-playbook/15256/2 "2014-05-16T18:02:04Z")
The “c” for --step means to “continue”, and will stop stepping. Feel free to open a github issue for us to update the docs regarding this option. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Petr\_Sukharev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Petr\_Sukharev](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Petr_Sukharev)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/step-option-for-ansible-playbook/15256/3 "2014-05-16T18:32:06Z")
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7433](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7433) 🙂