ansible/docs/man/man3/ansible.template.3

.TH ANSIBLE.TEMPLATE 3 "2012-10-08" "0.8" "ANSIBLE MODULES"
." generated from library/template
.SH NAME
template \- Templates a file out to a remote server.
." ------ DESCRIPTION
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Templates are processed by the Jinja2 templating language (\fIhttp://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/\fR) - documentation on the template formatting can be found in the Template Designer Documentation (\fIhttp://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/\fR). 
." ------ OPTIONS
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.SH OPTIONS

.IP dest
Location to render the template to on the remote machine.(required)
.IP src
Path of a Jinja2 formatted template on the local server. This can be a relative or absolute path.(required)
.IP backup
Create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly.
.IR Choices :
yes,no. (default: no)
.IP others
all arguments accepted by the \fIfile\fR module also work here."
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." ------ NOTES
.SH NOTES
.PP
Since Ansible version 0.9, templates are loaded with \fCtrim_blocks=True\fR. 
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." ------ EXAMPLES
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
.nf
template src=/mytemplates/foo.j2 dest=/etc/file.conf owner=bin group=wheel mode=0644
.fi
." ------- AUTHOR
.SH AUTHOR
Michael DeHaan
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR ansible (1),
.I http://ansible.github.com/modules.html#template