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title: variables-ignore.txt
description: You can use the variables-ignore.txt file to indicate the relative paths of any files whose variables you do not want to have substituted.
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# variables-ignore.txt

You can use the `variables-ignore.txt` file to indicate the relative paths of any files whose variables you do not want to have substituted.

The `variables-ignore.txt` file is an optional component of the server profile. It is useful when adding bash scripts to the server root because such files often contain expressions that the `manage-profile` tool normally interprets as variables.

Add `variables-ignore.txt` to a profile's root directory to indicate the relative paths of any files that are not to have their variables substituted.

The following example shows the contents of a typical `variables-ignore.txt` file.

```
server-root/pre-setup/script-to-ignore.sh
server-root/post-setup/another-file-to-ignore.txt
```