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REPLACE(1)		    MariaDB 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 ...

       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.,
       2010-2024 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/).

MariaDB	11.4		       3 September 2024			    REPLACE(1)

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