Here is my playbook: cat test.yml
- name: Play 2 hosts: targetserver tasks: - copy: src=./centosscript.sh dest=~ mode=775 - shell: ~/centosscript.sh Here is my shell script: cat centosscript.sh #/bin/ksh grabip=`ip r | grep kernel` I also tried grabip=`ifconfig | grep inet` cat myhosts [targetserver] 10.9.9.26 I get the following error when i run the playbook: $ ansible-playbook -i myhosts test.yml TASK [copy] ************************************************************************************************************************************************* changed: [10.9.9.26] TASK [shell] ************************************************************************************************************************************************ fatal: [10.9.9.26]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": "~/centosscript.sh", "delta": "0:00:00.122291", "end": "2020-03-17 12:18:49.485014", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2020-03-17 12:18:49.362723", "stderr": "/home/user1/centosscript.sh: line 2: ip: command not found", "stderr_lines": ["/home/user1/centosscript.sh: line 2: ip: command not found"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []} PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************************************************************** 10.9.9.26 : ok=1 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 When i run ip r or ifconfig commands they work fine on the target server. I need to use ksh shell. However, i get the same error even if i try #/bin/bash in my shell script. Below is the output of the same commands working fine with the ksh shell on the target server. bash-4.2$ ksh $ ip r | grep kernel 10.9.9.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.9.9.26 metric 100 $ ifconfig | grep inet inet 10.9.9.26 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.9.9.255 Can you please help overcome this issue ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/70ce714f-b4ba-4889-8ecc-29f60344d150%40googlegroups.com.