replace(1)

NAME#

replace - a string-replacement utility

SYNOPSIS#

replacearguments

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> \nreplace \nfrom\n \nto\n [\nfrom\n \nto\n] ... -- \nfile_name\n [\nfile_name\n] ...\n
shell> \nreplace \nfrom\n \nto\n [\nfrom\n \nto\n] ... < \nfile_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> \nreplace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...

The replace program is used by msql2mysql. See msql2mysql(1).

replace supports the following options.

Display a help message and exit.

Enable debugging.

Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.

Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.

Display version information and exit.

COPYRIGHT#

Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2025 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 Documentation, available online at https://mariadb.com/docs/

AUTHOR#

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