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

       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:

       o  -?, -I

          Display a help message and exit.

       o  -# debug_options

          Write a debugging log. The debug_options string often
          is 'd:t:o,file_name'.

       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.

SEE ALSO

       msql2mysql(1), myisamchk(1), myisamlog(1), myisampack(1),
       mysql(1), mysql.server(1), mysql_config(1),
       mysql_fix_privilege_tables(1), mysql_upgrade(1),
       mysql_zap(1), mysqlaccess(1), mysqladmin(1),
       mysqlbinlog(1), mysqlcheck(1), mysqld(1), mysqld_multi(1),
       mysqld_safe(1), mysqldump(1), mysqlhotcopy(1),
       mysqlimport(1), mysqlmanager(1), mysqlshow(1), perror(1),
       safe_mysqld(1)

       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

       MySQL AB (http://www.mysql.com/).  This software comes
       with no warranty.

MySQL 5.0                   03/04/2006             FBREPLACEFR(1)