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6 replace - a string-replacement utility
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9 replace arguments
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12 The replace utility program changes strings in place in files or on the
13 standard input.
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15 Invoke replace in one of the following ways:
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17 shell> replace from to [from to] ... -- file [file] ...
18 shell> replace from to [from to] ... < file
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20 from represents a string to look for and to represents its replacement.
21 There can be one or more pairs of strings.
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23 Use the -- option to indicate where the string-replacement list ends
24 and the filenames begin. In this case, any file named on the command
25 line is modified in place, so you may want to make a copy of the
26 original before converting it. replace prints a message indicating
27 which of the input files it actually modifies.
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29 If the -- option is not given, replace reads the standard input and
30 writes to the standard output.
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32 replace uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. It
33 can be used to swap strings. For example, the following command swaps a
34 and b in the given files, file1 and file2:
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36 shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...
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38 The replace program is used by msql2mysql. See msql2mysql(1).
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40 replace supports the following options:
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42 · -?, -I
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44 Display a help message and exit.
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46 · -# debug_options
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48 Write a debugging log. The debug_options string often is
49 ´d:t:o,file_name'.
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51 · -s
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53 Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.
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55 · -v
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57 Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
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59 · -V
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61 Display version information and exit.
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