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 [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.

SEE ALSO
       isamchk(1), isamlog(1), msql2mysql(1), myisam_ftdump(1), myisamchk(1),
       myisamlog(1), myisampack(1), mysql(1), mysql.server(1),
       mysql_config(1), mysql_fix_privilege_tables(1), mysql_zap(1),
       mysqlaccess(1), mysqladmin(1), mysqlbinlog(1), mysqlcheck(1),
       mysqld(1), mysqld_multi(1), mysqld_safe(1), mysqldump(1),
       mysqlhotcopy(1), mysqlimport(1), mysqlshow(1), pack_isam(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
       MySQL AB (http://www.mysql.com/).  This software comes with no
       warranty.



MySQL 4.1			  05/24/2006			   REPLACE(1)

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