replace
Section: MySQL database (1)
Updated: 19 December 2000
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NAME
- replace - A utility program that is used by msql2mysql, but that has more general applicability as well. replace changes strings in place in files or on the standard input. Uses a finite state machine to match longer strings first. Can be used to swap strings.
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USAGE
replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... -- [files]
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- replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... < fromfile > tofile
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SYNOPSIS
replace
[-?|-I]
[-s]
[-v]
DESCRIPTION
- replace
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- -?|-I
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info
- -s
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silent
- -v
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verbose
EXTRA INFO
Special characters in from string:
- \^
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Match start of line.
- \$
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Match end of line.
- \b
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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.
EXAMPLE
this command swaps a and b in the given files:
- shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ...
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SEE ALSO
isamchk (1),
isamlog (1),
mysqlaccess (1),
mysqladmin (1),
mysqlbug (1),
mysqld (1),
mysqldump (1),
mysqlshow (1),
msql2mysql (1),
perror (1),
replace (1),
safe_mysqld (1),
which1 (1),
zap (1),
AUTHOR
Ver 1.0, distribution 3.23.29a
Michael (Monty) Widenius (monty@tcx.se),
TCX Datakonsult AB (http://www.tcx.se).
This software comes with no warranty.
Manual page by L. (Kill-9) Pedersen
(kill-9@kill-9.dk), Mercurmedia Data Model Architect /
system developer (http://www.mercurmedia.com)
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- EXAMPLE
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