# /bin/sh: show: command not found

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/bin-sh-show-command-not-found/29475>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [January 19, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bin-sh-show-command-not-found/29475 "2019-01-19T04:05:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![KESHAV\_YADAV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@KESHAV\_YADAV](https://forum.ansible.com/u/KESHAV_YADAV)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bin-sh-show-command-not-found/29475/1 "2019-01-19T04:05:58Z")

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What is the reason behind the below output ? The device is reachable and ssh is successful from MAC terminal.

#ansible R2 -m raw -a “show version” -u keshav -k

R2 | FAILED | rc=127 \>\>

/bin/sh: show: command not found

non-zero return code

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Mielke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@Mark\_Mielke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Mielke)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bin-sh-show-command-not-found/29475/2 "2019-01-19T15:10:51Z")

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If you ssh to the device and type “show version”, what does it say? The message seems self explanatory?