diff --git a/runtags.deprecated b/runtags.deprecated
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index 2c6e3f7c4..000000000
--- a/runtags.deprecated
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@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-INVENTORY="ansible_hosts"
-PLAYBOOK="iiab.yml"
-#PLAYBOOK="iiab-stages.yml"
-CWD=`pwd`
-
-export ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH="$CWD/iiab-debug.log"
-
-if [ ! -f $PLAYBOOK ]; then
-    echo "Exiting: IIAB Playbook not found."
-    echo "Please run this in /opt/iiab/iiab (top level of the git repo)."
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-# Is the following stanza nec?
-if [ ! -f /etc/iiab/config_vars.yml ]; then
-    mkdir -p /etc/iiab
-    echo "{}" > /etc/iiab/config_vars.yml
-fi
-
-tags=$(echo $1 | tr "," "\n")
-
-if [ "$tags" == "" ]; then
-    echo " usage: ./runtags <tagname>"
-    echo " usage: ./runtags <tagname1>,<tagname2>,<tagname3>"
-    echo " Can take a single value or a comma-separated list (no spaces within the list!)"
-    echo " Now retrieving a list of possible Ansible playbook and tagname values..."
-    ansible-playbook -i $INVENTORY $PLAYBOOK --connection=local --list-tags
-    exit 0
-fi
-
-found="N"
-
-for tag in $tags; do
-    if [ "$tag" == "0-init" ]; then
-        found="Y"
-    fi
-done
-
-taglist=$1
-
-if [ "$found" == "N" ]; then
-    taglist="0-init,"$taglist
-fi
-
-ansible-playbook -i $INVENTORY $PLAYBOOK --connection=local --tags=$taglist