# Multiple annotate files?
**URL:** https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/multiple-annotate-files/4032
**Category:** YANG
**Created:** [March 21, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/multiple-annotate-files/4032 "2022-03-21T19:35:34Z")
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### Author:  [@colinmc](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/u/colinmc)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/multiple-annotate-files/4032/1 "2022-03-21T19:35:34Z")
Is there a way to use multiple files with annotate, or do I need to put all the tailf:annotate entries for a module in the same file?
When I used to use “augment” to augment a main module, I could have an ann file for each module that augmented the main module.
Not that the main module uses “`uses`”, I cannot just modify to compile with “`-a *-ann.yang`”. It wants one single ann file.
So do I need to move all those annotate entries into one single ann file? Or is there a way to organize them hierarchically similar to how “`uses`” and “`grouping`” works?
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### Author:  [@mvf](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/u/mvf)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/multiple-annotate-files/4032/2 "2022-03-22T09:46:57Z")
Nothing stops you from doing `-a mod-ann1.yang -a mod-ann2.yang` - the convention that the annotation modules are named `*-ann.yang` is just that, a convention.
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### Author:  [@colinmc](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/u/colinmc)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/multiple-annotate-files/4032/3 "2022-03-22T14:45:45Z")
Oh, I did not know I could use `-a` multiple times. That should solve my issue.