amazing. thanks a lot. tried it just now and it did the magic. However, 
tried to give it a little thought. I am assuming 1 is for the expression 
with in the first bracket (). But since it is an OR '|', how does it know 
which word needs to be replaced with what and in which line. I mean could 
it not be possible that the words are replaced as privkey3.pem in the first 
line and cert3.pem in the second line., the other way round.

Hope I am clear

Thanks

Danish
On Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:43:42 UTC, Dick Visser wrote:
>
> This should do it: 
>
>     - name: backup conf file and search and replace regex 
>       replace: 
>         path: /etc/nginx/sites-available/cruk-eb 
>         regexp: '(privkey|cert)\.cruk\.org\.(key\.pem|crt)' 
>         replace: '\g<1>3.pem' 
>         backup: yes 
>
> Dick 
>
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 11:23, danish09 <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > 
> > Hey there, 
> > 
> > I am using ansible 2.6.4. In on the projects I was working on, I had to 
> search for 2 different words in the same file and replace them as 
> necessary. Used replace module 2 times for this. Below is the playbook that 
> I have used. 
> > 
> >     - name: backup conf file and search and replace regex 
> >       replace: 
> >         path: /etc/nginx/sites-available/cruk-eb 
> >         regexp: 'cert\.cruk\.org\.crt' 
> >         replace: 'cert3.pem' 
> >         backup: yes 
> > 
> >     - name: backup conf file and search and replace regex again 
> >       replace: 
> >         path: /etc/nginx/sites-available/cruk-eb 
> >         regexp: 'privkey\.cruk\.org\.key\.pem' 
> >         replace: 'privkey3.pem' 
> >         backup: yes 
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a way that I can search and replace 2 words in one task/play 
> > 
> > 
> > Pleas let me know if there is any other information that you need. And 
> apologies if I have missed out anything. 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > 
> > Danish. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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