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] ... < file

       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

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

       -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.


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SEE ALSO
       msql2mysql(1), myisam_ftdump(1), myisamchk(1), myisamlog(1), myisampack(1), mysql(1), mysql.server(1),
       mysql_config(1), mysql_explain_log(1), mysql_fix_privilege_tables(1), mysql_upgrade(1), mysql_zap(1),
       mysqlaccess(1), mysqladmin(1), mysqlbinlog(1), mysqlcheck(1), mysqld(1), mysqld(8), mysqld_multi(1),
       mysqld_safe(1), mysqldump(1), mysqlhotcopy(1), mysqlimport(1), mysqlmanager(1), mysqlmanager(8),
       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
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MySQL 5.0                         10/20/2006                        REPLACE(1)

http://bashconsole.org/man.1.replace