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REPLACE(1) MySQL Database System 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_name [file_name] ... shell> replace from to [from to] ... < file_name 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: ? -?, -I Display a help message and exit. ? -#debug_options Enable debugging. ? -s Silent mode. Print less information what the program does. ? -v Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does. ? -V Display version information and exit. COPYRIGHT Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 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 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" title="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>. SEE ALSO For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/" title="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/</a>. AUTHOR MySQL AB (<a href="http://www.mysql.com/" title="http://www.mysql.com/">http://www.mysql.com/</a>). MySQL 5.0 08/02/2008 REPLACE(1)