# Unable to run playbook (Syntax Error) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [April 30, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-run-playbook-syntax-error/27416 "2018-04-30T21:26:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joshua\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Joshua\_Hill](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joshua_Hill)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-run-playbook-syntax-error/27416/1 "2018-04-30T21:26:30Z")
Can someone show me where my mistakes are with the below playbook? When i try to run this playbook it tells me it fails at - name: run multiple commands on remote nodes ^ here ` ---
**Author:** ![Karl\_Auer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@Karl\_Auer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Karl_Auer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-run-playbook-syntax-error/27416/2 "2018-04-30T21:35:29Z")
“hosts” should come before “name”. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Joshua\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Joshua\_Hill](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joshua_Hill)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-run-playbook-syntax-error/27416/3 "2018-04-30T21:48:22Z")
Same issue ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-run-playbook-syntax-error/27416/4 "2018-04-30T23:13:32Z")
hosts/name order does not matter, indentation does seem to be off, - debug should start at same level as the previous task ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Hector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Richard\_Hector](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Richard_Hector)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-run-playbook-syntax-error/27416/5 "2018-05-01T01:27:58Z")
I think the 3 lines under "- name" need to be indented level with the 'n'. Richard ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Hector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Richard\_Hector](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Richard_Hector)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-run-playbook-syntax-error/27416/6 "2018-05-01T01:29:54Z")
Oh, whoops - I was looking at the wrong '- name' Richard ---
**Author:** ![Joshua\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Joshua\_Hill](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joshua_Hill)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-run-playbook-syntax-error/27416/7 "2018-05-01T04:45:07Z")
Tried it without the register and still no go! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-run-playbook-syntax-error/27416/8 "2018-05-01T13:43:53Z")
so from emai (not a good source) the indentations were off in many places, this is a 'fixed' version of your play: - name: get version   hosts: all   gather\_facts: false   connection: local   tasks:    - name: run multiple commands on remote nodes      ios\_command:        commands:          - show version          - show ip int brief      register: print\_output    - debug: var=print\_output.stdout\_lines