replace - A String-Replacement Utility
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
shell>from
to
[from
to
] ... --file_name
[file_name
] ...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 - Convert mSQL Programs for Use with MySQL".
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.