I think there would be value in providing idempotent operations to all common Linux tools. This often exist, but sometimes with weird side effects. Sometimes an

I think there would be value in providing idempotent operations to all common Linux tools. This often exist, but sometimes with weird side effects. Sometimes an add operation returns a failure code because item already exist and so on. It would be quite worthwhile to go through the Ansible documentation and document a command line alternative for each. Then it would be easier to use a regular programming language to achieve the same effects.