DOCUMENTATION: name: difference author: Brian Coca (@bcoca) version_added: "1.4" short_description: the difference of one list from another description: - Provide a unique list of all the elements of the first list that do not appear in the second one. options: _input: description: A list. type: list required: true _second_list: description: A list. type: list required: true seealso: - plugin_type: filter plugin: ansible.builtin.intersect - plugin_type: filter plugin: ansible.builtin.symmetric_difference - plugin_type: filter plugin: ansible.builtin.union - plugin_type: filter plugin: ansible.builtin.unique EXAMPLES: | # return the elements of list1 not in list2 # list1: [1, 2, 5, 1, 3, 4, 10] # list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99] {{ list1 | difference(list2) }} # => [10] RETURN: _value: description: A unique list of the elements from the first list that do not appear on the second. type: list