# Ansible-lint error **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ansible-lint\ **Created:** [July 8, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-lint-error/33347 "2020-07-08T13:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jenisha\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Jenisha\_T](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jenisha_T)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-lint-error/33347/1 "2020-07-08T13:10:34Z")
Hi Team I get below error when I run ansible-lint. Any clue why it’s throwing error 0.55s$ ansible-lint . 231Traceback (most recent call last): 232 File “/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.15/bin/ansible-lint”, line 11, in 233 sys.exit(main()) 234 File “/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.15/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansiblelint/ **main**.py”, line 187, in main 235 matches.extend(runner.run()) 236 File “/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.15/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansiblelint/ **init**.py”, line 287, in run 237 skip\_list=self.skip\_list)) 238 File “/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.15/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansiblelint/ **init**.py”, line 177, in run 239 matches.extend(rule.matchtasks(playbookfile, text)) 240 File “/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.15/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansiblelint/ **init**.py”, line 87, in matchtasks 241 yaml = ansiblelint.utils.append\_skipped\_rules(yaml, text, file[‘type’]) 242 File “/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.15/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansiblelint/utils.py”, line 596, in append\_skipped\_rules 243 yaml\_skip = \_append\_skipped\_rules(pyyaml\_data, file\_text, file\_type) 244 File “/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.15/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansiblelint/utils.py”, line 635, in \_append\_skipped\_rules 245 if pyyaml\_task.get(‘name’) != ruamel\_task.get(‘name’): 246AttributeError: ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘get’ 247The command “ansible-lint .” exited with 1. ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-lint-error/33347/2 "2020-07-08T17:41:41Z")
Not really, with almost zero information that is provided ---
**Author:** ![Ameya\_Agashe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Ameya\_Agashe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ameya_Agashe)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-lint-error/33347/3 "2020-07-09T00:08:06Z")
You need something like this [ansible@ip-172-31-40-59 playbooks]$ ansible-lint roles/patching/tasks/\*.yml [201] Trailing whitespace roles/patching/tasks/debian.yml:1 ---
**Author:** ![Ameya\_Agashe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Ameya\_Agashe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ameya_Agashe)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-lint-error/33347/4 "2020-07-09T02:25:29Z")
Addendum, OP, I just gave an example for you to run ansible-lint, you need to run on the yaml files