diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/psrp-display-exec-output.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/psrp-display-exec-output.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d32c2b8a955
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/psrp-display-exec-output.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- psrp - do not display bootstrap wrapper for each module exec run
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
index 7aa0d909e22..cdcdbf1758b 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
@@ -255,31 +255,32 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
         super(Connection, self).exec_command(cmd, in_data=in_data,
                                              sudoable=sudoable)
 
-        if cmd == "-" and not in_data.startswith(b"#!"):
-            # The powershell plugin sets cmd to '-' when we are executing a
-            # PowerShell script with in_data being the script to execute.
-            script = in_data
-            in_data = None
-            display.vvv("PSRP: EXEC (via pipeline wrapper)",
-                        host=self._psrp_host)
-        elif cmd == "-":
-            # ANSIBALLZ wrapper, we need to get the interpreter and execute
-            # that as the script - note this won't work as basic.py relies
-            # on packages not available on Windows, once fixed we can enable
-            # this path
-            interpreter = to_native(in_data.splitlines()[0][2:])
-            # script = "$input | &'%s' -" % interpreter
-            # in_data = to_text(in_data)
-            raise AnsibleError("cannot run the interpreter '%s' on the psrp "
-                               "connection plugin" % interpreter)
-        elif cmd.startswith(" ".join(_common_args) + " -EncodedCommand"):
+        if cmd.startswith(" ".join(_common_args) + " -EncodedCommand"):
             # This is a PowerShell script encoded by the shell plugin, we will
             # decode the script and execute it in the runspace instead of
             # starting a new interpreter to save on time
             b_command = base64.b64decode(cmd.split(" ")[-1])
             script = to_text(b_command, 'utf-16-le')
             in_data = to_text(in_data, errors="surrogate_or_strict", nonstring="passthru")
-            display.vvv("PSRP: EXEC %s" % script, host=self._psrp_host)
+
+            if in_data and in_data.startswith(u"#!"):
+                # ANSIBALLZ wrapper, we need to get the interpreter and execute
+                # that as the script - note this won't work as basic.py relies
+                # on packages not available on Windows, once fixed we can enable
+                # this path
+                interpreter = to_native(in_data.splitlines()[0][2:])
+                # script = "$input | &'%s' -" % interpreter
+                # in_data = to_text(in_data)
+                raise AnsibleError("cannot run the interpreter '%s' on the psrp "
+                                   "connection plugin" % interpreter)
+
+            # call build_module_command to get the bootstrap wrapper text
+            bootstrap_wrapper = self._shell.build_module_command('', '', '')
+            if bootstrap_wrapper == cmd:
+                # Do not display to the user each invocation of the bootstrap wrapper
+                display.vvv("PSRP: EXEC (via pipeline wrapper)")
+            else:
+                display.vvv("PSRP: EXEC %s" % script, host=self._psrp_host)
         else:
             # in other cases we want to execute the cmd as the script
             script = cmd