diff --git a/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml b/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml
index b4a885d..ce4705c 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
 - name: Split cluster API provider manifests into separate files
   ansible.builtin.shell:
     cmd: >-
-      awk 'BEGINFILE {print "---"}{print}' provider-*.yaml | \
+      awk 'BEGINFILE {print "---"}{print}' {{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/provider-*.yaml |
       kubectl slice \
         -o {{ capi_clustermanifest.path }}/providers