What is the correct way to use the lookup pipe filter on the remote host?

On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 8:47:24 AM UTC-5 Rowe, Walter P. (Fed) wrote:

> My guess is that pipe is trying to run an executable named exactly this: 
> "/home/BreadPitt/program/executable 
> --version" vs passing the --version option to the executable.
>
> Walter
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> On May 15, 2023, at 9:40 AM, LT <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to retrieve the version number of the installed executable. 
> The complete path exists, the file has executable permissions, but I am 
> encountering a 127 error, indicating that the file does not exist. Have I 
> missed something? 
> *Here is the code that I have:* 
> - set_fact: remote_version: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.pipe', '/home/' + 
> username + '/program/executable_file' + ' --version') }}"
>
>
> *The error that I am getting: *fatal: [xxx.yyy.zzz.fff]: FAILED! => 
> {"msg": "An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 
> 'ansible.builtin.pipe'. Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, 
> original message: lookup_plugin.pipe(/home/BreadPitt/program/executable 
> --version) returned 127. lookup_plugin.pipe( 
> /home/BreadPitt/program/executable   --version) returned 127"}
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