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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 [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.

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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
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MySQL 5.0                                        07/04/2007                                       REPLACE(1)