Limit linting to only files with a hosts attribute? about linter-ansible-syntax HOT 2 CLOSED

This has been on my TODO for a long time now. Additionally, Ansible has just recently started doing syntax checks on includes so now I need to handle that too.

Ideally, Ansible would be able to syntax check more than just the site.yml, but they haven't really cared a lot about the syntax checker.

I have a similar TODO for the ansible-lint package. I don't see myself taking a stab at this in the next few days, but I very likely will in the next month.

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Resolved in 7f2832c.

I had work and technical headaches the last few days, but just got a chance to look at this again. I still have the dream to trick ansible into syntax checking all files, but your suggestion is a good intermediary step. Also, the quick code search on github to figure out the API call to do this has given me an idea for that trick.

Note I am also about to go do this for the ansible-lint linter too. Will claims ansible-lint works fine on roles (not includes) as of a certain version, but I have been unable to figure that out. Going to go ping him on that now.

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