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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 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 ...

       replace supports the following options.

       o   -?, -I

           Display a help message and exit.

       o   -#debug_options

           Enable debugging.

       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.


COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1997, 2015, 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

       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

       Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).

MySQL 5.7                         11/28/2015                        REPLACE(1)

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