Within Ansible Automation Platform, getting '/path/to/directory' does not exist, when it does indeed

[Tim]

Hi Guys,

I have a playbook that gets all of the files within a directory:

```

- name: Find Backup Files to Move 

 find: paths: /path/to/directory 

 recurse: no 

 excludes: 'test-file.tar.gz' 

 delegate_to: localhost 

 register: testfiles

```

This playbook keeps failing with the following message:

```

[WARNING]: Skipped '/path/to/directory' path due to this access issue:

6

'/path/to/directory' is not a directory

```

The directory certainly does exist, and it is not empty:

```

-rwxr-x---. 1 awx awx 98358 Dec  6 00:00 test-file-2022-backup-12-06-00:00:06.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 awx awx    80 Dec  6 00:00 test-file-latest.tar.gz -> /path/to/directory/test-file-backup-2022-12-06-00:00:06.tar.gz

```

What can I do to troubleshoot this further?

[Todd Lewis]

My guess is that you are mistaken, either in the path or the host this task is executing on.

In the mean time, what's the difference between expected and actual output from the following task:

```

- name: Where is my missing path

  shell: |

    echo "Give me some clues:"

    echo "Hostname: $(hostname)"

    ls -ld /path

    ls -ld /path/to

    ls -ld /path/to/directory

 ```

[Todd Lewis]

Also, this conversation should be happening in

     https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-project/

rather than

     https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-devel/