replace - Unix, Linux Command
NAME
replace - a string-replacement utility
SYNOPSIS
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replace arguments
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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
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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 ...
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The
replace
program is used by
msql2mysql. See
msql2mysql(1).
replace
supports the following options.
o
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o
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-?,
-I
Display a help message and exit.
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o
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o
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-#debug_options
Enable debugging.
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o
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o
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-s
Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.
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o
Tag | Description |
o
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-v
Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
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-V
Display version information and exit.
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1997, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
SEE ALSO
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/).
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