# How to copy a file from windows to linux **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows\ **Created:** [June 25, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-copy-a-file-from-windows-to-linux/35416 "2021-06-25T19:41:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![senguler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@senguler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/senguler)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-copy-a-file-from-windows-to-linux/35416/1 "2021-06-25T19:41:26Z")
Hi all, I want to copy a file from windows to linux but I cannot do that. I trıed win\_copy module and remote\_src=yes and job was success but the file did not exist on target machine. Where I am wrong. Thanks for helps. ---
**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-copy-a-file-from-windows-to-linux/35416/2 "2021-06-25T19:42:36Z")
Slurp to ansible controller then copy to linux ---
**Author:** ![senguler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@senguler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/senguler)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-copy-a-file-from-windows-to-linux/35416/3 "2021-06-25T20:25:00Z")
Actually, as a same result. 25 Haziran 2021 Cuma tarihinde saat 22:42:56 UTC+3 itibarıyla [weiye...@gmail.com](mailto:weiye...@gmail.com) şunları yazdı: ---
**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-copy-a-file-from-windows-to-linux/35416/4 "2021-06-25T20:27:51Z")
What do yoy mean. Is it doing the same thing? Can you please share play book and task? ---
**Author:** ![senguler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@senguler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/senguler)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-copy-a-file-from-windows-to-linux/35416/5 "2021-06-25T20:57:56Z")
- name: copy file from windows to tower copy\_win: src : c:\tmp\b.txt dest: /tmp remote\_src: yes output : { “src”: “c:\test\b.txt”, “\_ansible\_no\_log”: false, “dest”: “/tmp”, “checksum”: “f88f94f974393a32cedc172ea3f7f4affb82f4c2”, “changed”: true, “original\_basename”: “b.txt”, “operation”: “file\_copy”, “size”: 7 } the job finished successfuly, the file does not exist in tmp directory 25 Haziran 2021 Cuma tarihinde saat 23:28:52 UTC+3 itibarıyla [weiye...@gmail.com](mailto:weiye...@gmail.com) şunları yazdı: ---
**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-copy-a-file-from-windows-to-linux/35416/6 "2021-06-25T21:02:14Z")
That’s not using the slurp module ---
**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-copy-a-file-from-windows-to-linux/35416/7 "2021-06-25T21:05:10Z")
[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/slurp\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/slurp_module.html) ---
**Author:** ![senguler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@senguler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/senguler)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-copy-a-file-from-windows-to-linux/35416/8 "2021-06-26T11:21:23Z")
Thanks for your answer, it opens my sight but I still do not copy content to file on disk. I tried copy module again but it did not work. My playbook and output are below.