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Answer: Ansible fileglob: unable to find … in expected paths

Ansible lookup plugins are executed on local machine (where you launch Ansible), not remote one(s).

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/lookup.html

Lookup plugins allow Ansible to access data from outside sources. This can include reading the filesystem in addition to contacting external datastores and services. Like all templating, these plugins are evaluated on the Ansible…

I try to using fileglob to update multiple file on remote machine, but encounter an error

Unable to find '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts' in expected paths

because lookup does not run on remote machine.

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