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Added an example for paretheses #9268

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Expand Up @@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ It's actually pretty simple::
command: /sbin/shutdown -t now
when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"

You can also use parentheses to group conditions::

tasks:
- name: "shutdown CentOS 6 and 7 systems"
command: /sbin/shutdown -t now
when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS" and
(ansible_distribution_major_version == "6" or ansible_distribution_major_version == "7")

A number of Jinja2 "filters" can also be used in when statements, some of which are unique
and provided by Ansible. Suppose we want to ignore the error of one statement and then
decide to do something conditionally based on success or failure::
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