ansible.builtin.any test – is any condition in a list true

Note

This test plugin is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short plugin name any. However, we recommend you use the Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) ansible.builtin.any for easy linking to the plugin documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same test plugin name.

Synopsis

  • This test checks each condition in a list for truthiness.
  • Same as the any Python function.

Input

This describes the input of the test, the value before is ansible.builtin.any or is not ansible.builtin.any.

Parameter

Comments

Input

list / elements=any / required

List of conditions, each can be a boolean or conditional expression that results in a boolean value.

Examples

varexpression: "{{ 3 == 3 }}"
# is any statement true?
{{ [false, booleanvar, varexpression] is any}}

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

boolean

Returns True if any element of the list was true, False otherwise.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Ansible Core

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/any_test.html