# what does \>- mean ?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-does-mean/24278>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 21, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-does-mean/24278 "2017-04-21T06:18:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bruce\_Auyeung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@Bruce\_Auyeung](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bruce_Auyeung)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-does-mean/24278/1 "2017-04-21T06:18:05Z")

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there are some tasks like this in kargo project

`

- name: Register docker images info  
raw: \>-  
{{ docker\_bin\_dir }}/docker images -q | xargs {{ docker\_bin\_dir }}/docker inspect -f “{{ ‘{{’ }} .RepoTags {{ ‘}}’ }},{{ ‘{{’ }} .RepoDigests {{ ‘}}’ }}”  
no\_log: true  
register: docker\_images\_raw  
failed\_when: false  
check\_mode: no  
when: not download\_always\_pull|bool

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there is a  
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> -

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after  
`raw:`

i have no idea what does it mean  
i know  
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in yaml can let user write a real single line to multiple lines.

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**Author:** ![mhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@mhael](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mhael)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-does-mean/24278/2 "2017-04-24T03:53:39Z")

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‘\>-’ is the same as ‘\>’ but it omits the final newline. I.e. the last char of the corresponding block of text will be the actual last char of the last line, and not ‘\n’ as in case of ‘\>’.