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Section: MySQL Database System (1)
Updated: 11/15/2007
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NAME

replace - a string-replacement utility

SYNOPSIS

replace arguments

DESCRIPTION

The replace utility program changes strings in place in files or on the standard input.

Invoke replace in one of the following ways:

shell> replace from to [from to] ... -- file [file] ...
shell> replace from to [from to] ... < file

from represents a string to look for and to represents its replacement. There can be one or more pairs of strings.

Use the -- option to indicate where the string-replacement list ends and the filenames begin. In this case, any file named on the command line is modified in place, so you may want to make a copy of the original before converting it. replace prints a message indicating which of the input files it actually modifies.

If the -- option is not given, replace reads the standard input and writes to the standard output.

replace uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. It can be used to swap strings. For example, the following command swaps a and b in the given files, file1 and file2:

shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...

The replace program is used by msql2mysql. See msql2mysql(1).

replace supports the following options:

*: -?, -I
Display a help message and exit.
*: -# debug_options
Write a debugging log. The debug_options string often is 'd:t:o,file_name'.
*: -s
Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.
*: -v
Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
*: -V
Display version information and exit.

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