# Unzip on windows is giving You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/unzip-on-windows-is-giving-you-cannot-call-a-method-on-a-null-valued-expression/20792>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [March 7, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unzip-on-windows-is-giving-you-cannot-call-a-method-on-a-null-valued-expression/20792 "2016-03-07T14:01:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Deepa\_Yr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b77776/32.png) [@Deepa\_Yr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Deepa_Yr)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unzip-on-windows-is-giving-you-cannot-call-a-method-on-a-null-valued-expression/20792/1 "2016-03-07T14:01:27Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unzip-on-windows-is-giving-you-cannot-call-a-method-on-a-null-valued-expression/20792/2 "2016-03-07T14:29:30Z")

</div>

Does install\_base\_path exist?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Deepa\_Yr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b77776/32.png) [@Deepa\_Yr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Deepa_Yr)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unzip-on-windows-is-giving-you-cannot-call-a-method-on-a-null-valued-expression/20792/3 "2016-03-08T04:45:28Z")

</div>

Yes install\_base\_path exists and I can see it is getting replaced with correct value C:\\Bundles.zip

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Deepa\_Yr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b77776/32.png) [@Deepa\_Yr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Deepa_Yr)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unzip-on-windows-is-giving-you-cannot-call-a-method-on-a-null-valued-expression/20792/4 "2016-03-08T07:09:38Z")

</div>

Its resolved now. There are four slash (////) after C: . Once that is changed it ran fine. Thanks