# Yaml statement over multiple lines.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/yaml-statement-over-multiple-lines/26717>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 13, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/yaml-statement-over-multiple-lines/26717 "2018-02-13T12:25:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![mail.philfriend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@mail.philfriend](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mail.philfriend)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/yaml-statement-over-multiple-lines/26717/1 "2018-02-13T12:25:24Z")

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Hi,

How should I split this dest: statement into multiple lines ?

- copy:  
content: “{{ config.stdout[0] }}”  
**dest: “{{ backup\_root }}/{{ inventory\_hostname }}/dhcp\_leases\_{{ ansible\_date\_time.year }}{{ ansible\_date\_time.month }}{{ ansible\_date\_time.day }}{{ ansible\_date\_time.hour }}{{ ansible\_date\_time.minute }}{{ ansible\_date\_time.second }}”**

Thanks in advance,

Phil.

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/yaml-statement-over-multiple-lines/26717/2 "2018-02-13T14:32:52Z")

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You can try this

&nbsp;&nbsp;- copy:  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;content: "{{ config.stdout[0] }}"  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;dest: "{{ backup\_root }}/\  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{ inventory\_hostname }}/\  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;dhcp\_leases\_{{ ansible\_date\_time.year }}\  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{ ansible\_date\_time.month }}\  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{ ansible\_date\_time.day }}\  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{ ansible\_date\_time.hour }}\  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{ ansible\_date\_time.minute }}\  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{ ansible\_date\_time.second }}"

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**Author:** ![flowerysong1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@flowerysong1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/flowerysong1)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/yaml-statement-over-multiple-lines/26717/3 "2018-02-14T02:29:13Z")

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There are multiple ways to do it, but I’d go for something like this:

dest: “{{ [ backup\_root, inventory\_hostname, ‘dhcp\_leases\_’ ~  
(‘%Y%m%d%H%M%S’ | strftime) ] | join(‘/’) }}”

(If using the time from the facts is important, you can do “strftime(ansible\_date\_time.epoch)” instead of the plain invocation.)