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., 2010-2015 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 10.3                                                 9 May 2017                                                  REPLACE(1)

replace  Ver 1.4 for debian-linux-gnu at x86_64
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

This program replaces strings in files or from stdin to stdout.
It accepts a list of from-string/to-string pairs and replaces
each occurrence of a from-string with the corresponding to-string.
The first occurrence of a found string is matched. If there is
more than one possibility for the string to replace, longer
matches are preferred before shorter matches.

A from-string can contain these special characters:
  \^      Match start of line.
  \$      Match end of line.
  \b      Match space-character, start of line or end of line.
          For a end \b the next replace starts locking at the end
          space-character. A \b alone in a string matches only a
          space-character.

Usage: replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... -- [files]
or
Usage: replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... < fromfile > tofile

Options: -? or -I "Info"  -s "silent"      -v "verbose"