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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 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 ...

       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, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
       2010-2020 MariaDB Foundation

       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
       02110-1335 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

SEE ALSO

       For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base,
       available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/

AUTHOR

       MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

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