I don't understand the first part of your comment, why do you compare different commands. My complaint is that ansible runs external command, always internally

I don't understand the first part of your comment, why do you compare different commands. My complaint is that ansible runs external command, always internally collects it output, but doesn't display it. Thank you for the "-v". I've run ansible with various amounts of -v in the past but I didn't notice that it does display stdout_lines with it!