replace
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.
<<fixed>>replace<<fixed>> 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
none Display a help message and exit.
-#debug_options
none Enable debugging.
-s
none Silent mode. Print less information what the program does.
<<fixed>>-v<<fixed>>
none Verbose mode. Print more information about what the program does.
<<fixed>>-V<<fixed>>
none Display version information and exit.
