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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
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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] ...
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20 from represents a string to look for and to represents its replacement.
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23 Use the -- option to indicate where the string-replacement list ends
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32 replace uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. It
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38 The replace program is used by msql2mysql. See msql2mysql(1).
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