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NAME

6       replace - a string-replacement utility
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SYNOPSIS

9       replace arguments
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DESCRIPTION

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_name [file_name] ...
18           shell> replace from to [from to] ... < file_name
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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 file names 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           Enable debugging.
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50       ·   -s
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52           Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.
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54       ·   -v
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56           Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
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58       ·   -V
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60           Display version information and exit.
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66       This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
67       modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
68       published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
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70       This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
71       but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
72       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
73       General Public License for more details.
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75       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
76       with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
77       51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA or see
78       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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SEE ALSO

82       For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which
83       may already be installed locally and which is also available online at
84       http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
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AUTHOR

87       Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).
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