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diff --git a/man/replace.1 b/man/replace.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..10bcf64fc88 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/replace.1 @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +.TH REPLACE 1 "20 December 2000" +.SH NAME +.TP +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. +.SH USAGE +replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... -- [files] +.TP +or +.TP +replace [-?svIV] from to from to ... < fromfile > tofile +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B replace +.RB [ -? | -I ] +.RB [ -s ] +.RB [ -v ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.BR replace +.TP +.BR -? | -I +info +.TP +.BR -s +silent +.TP +.BR -v +verbose +.SH EXTRA INFO +.B Special characters in from string: +.TP +\\^ +Match start of line. +.TP +\\$ +Match end of line. +.TP +\\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. +.SH EXAMPLE +this command swaps a and b in the given files: +.TP +shell> replace a b b a -- file1 file2 ... +.SH "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), +.SH 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) +.\" end of man page + + |