# synchronize using a file list

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/synchronize-using-a-file-list/23001>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [November 10, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/synchronize-using-a-file-list/23001 "2016-11-10T14:23:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![giaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@giaf](https://forum.ansible.com/u/giaf)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/synchronize-using-a-file-list/23001/1 "2016-11-10T14:23:29Z")

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Hi all,

I’m new on this mailing list.

I was wondering why the ansible plugin synchronize doesn’t support filelist. The correspondent rsync option is: --files-from=  
Is there any particular reason to not implement this feature or there’s already a workaround for that?

Many thanks,  
Giacomo

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**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:** [December 2, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/synchronize-using-a-file-list/23001/2 "2016-12-02T21:27:27Z")

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you can use lookup(‘file’, ‘’) to give it the list