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Refer to the play_host as remote instead of local (ansible#15307)
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It was pointed out on IRC that the "local machine" terminology is
confusing, since in this instance it refers to the host *against* which
Ansible is running, in contrast to the host *from* which Ansible is
running.
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Allyson Bowles authored and bcoca committed Apr 25, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ Iterating Over The Results of a Program Execution
.. note:: This is an uncommon thing to want to do, but we're documenting it for completeness. You probably won't be reaching for this one often.

Sometimes you might want to execute a program, and based on the output of that program, loop over the results of that line by line.
Ansible provides a neat way to do that, though you should remember, this is always executed on the control machine, not the local
Ansible provides a neat way to do that, though you should remember, this is always executed on the control machine, not the remote
machine::

- name: Example of looping over a command result
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