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# ansible-doc

plugin documentation tool

- Synopsis

- Description

- Common Options

- Environment

- Files

- Author

- License

- See also

## Synopsis

    usage: ansible-doc [-h] [--version] [-v] [-M MODULE_PATH]
                    [--playbook-dir BASEDIR]
                    [-t {become,cache,callback,cliconf,connection,httpapi,inventory,lookup,netconf,shell,module,strategy,vars}]
                    [-j] [-F | -l | -s | --metadata-dump]
                    [plugin [plugin ...]]

## Description

displays information on modules installed in Ansible libraries. It displays a terse listing of plugins and their short descriptions, provides a printout of their DOCUMENTATION strings, and it can create a short “snippet” which can be pasted into a playbook.

## Common Options

`--metadata-dump```

  For internal testing only Dump json metadata for all plugins.

`--playbook-dir``<BASEDIR>`

  Since this tool does not use playbooks, use this as a substitute playbook directory.This sets the relative path for many features including roles/ group_vars/ etc.

`--version```

  show program’s version number, config file location, configured module search path, module location, executable location and exit

`-F````,` `--list_files```

  Show plugin names and their source files without summaries (implies –list)

`-M````,` `--module-path```

  prepend colon-separated path(s) to module library (default=~/.ansible/plugins/modules:/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules)

`-h````,` `--help```

  show this help message and exit

`-j````,` `--json```

  Change output into json format.

`-l````,` `--list```

  List available plugins

`-s````,` `--snippet```

  Show playbook snippet for specified plugin(s)

`-t``<TYPE>``,` `--type``<TYPE>`

  Choose which plugin type (defaults to “module”). Available plugin types are : (‘become’, ‘cache’, ‘callback’, ‘cliconf’, ‘connection’, ‘httpapi’, ‘inventory’, ‘lookup’, ‘netconf’, ‘shell’, ‘module’, ‘strategy’, ‘vars’)

`-v````,` `--verbose```

  verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable connection debugging)

## Environment

The following environment variables may be specified.

`ANSIBLE_CONFIG` – Override the default ansible config file

Many more are available for most options in ansible.cfg

## Files

`/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg` – Config file, used if present

`~/.ansible.cfg` – User config file, overrides the default config if present

## Author

Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan.

See the AUTHORS file for a complete list of contributors.

## License

Ansible is released under the terms of the GPLv3+ License.

## See also

ansible(1), ansible-config(1), ansible-console(1), ansible-doc(1), ansible-galaxy(1), ansible-inventory(1), ansible-playbook(1), ansible-pull(1), ansible-vault(1),