The replace utility program changes strings in place in files or on the standard input.
Invoke replace in one of the following ways:
shell>replaceshell>fromto[fromto] ... --file[file] ...replacefromto[fromto] ... <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 Section 22.9.1, “msql2mysql — Convert mSQL Programs for Use with MySQL”.
replace supports the following options:
-?, -I
Display a help message and exit.
-#
debug_options
Write a debugging log. The
debug_options'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.