How to apply/run playbook target at a specific group of machines in the ini-style inventory

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Hello everyone,
I am a pretty new face to Ansible. I can follow instruction pretty good however, I need your help with the following scenario.
I created an .INI style inventory file called “hosts”, with basically categorize our devices/servers in different groups like below

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Then the issue must in the playbook itself.
What does that look like?

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Hi,

Right, it maybe the playbook itself. Anyway, the play1.yml is per below:

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That “*” is a bit unusual (to me at least).
Try:

hosts: all

And then see if the issue is still there

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I have changed to “host: all” per your suggestion, it unfortunately did not help…
It does not like the -i ./inventory/hosts Windows
But if I just do -i ./inventory/hosts (without the group “Windows”), it will work but it will do all the devices/machines instead of just a specific group (which I want to)
Thank you

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I actually figured it out, should use the -l

-i ./inventory/hosts -l Windows

Works like a charm!