REPLACE(1)
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_name [file_name] ... shell> replace from to [from to] ... < file_name
- 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 file names 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.
- o -?, -I
Display a help message and exit.- o -#debug_options
Enable debugging.- o -s
Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.- o -v
Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.- o -V
Display version information and exit.
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SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which
may already be installed locally and which is also available online at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
AUTHOR
- Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).