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.

           Note
           The replace utility is deprecated as of MySQL 5.7.18 and is removed in MySQL 8.0.

       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 ...

       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 © 1997, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates.

       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 02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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

       Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).