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 Deletes the contents of a subtree that has just been merged or
 appended to a new location and replaces the information with
 soft links whose targets are the corresponding entries in the new
 location.

 SYNOPSIS

      REPLACE SUBTREE tree-name[...] [WITH] LINK newtree-name

      [EXCLUDE entry-type]

 Arguments

 tree-name

 The full name of the topmost directory in the subtree.

 newtree-name

 The full name of the topmost directory in the target subtree.

 entry-type

 One or more of the following types of entries to exclude from the
 change: objects, links, or directories. Use any combination of the
 following entry-type specifiers, separating multiple arguments with
 commas:

 objects
 links
 directory directory name

 Description

 This command is useful after you have merged or appended a subtree
 that contains clearinghouse object entries. For all entries except
 clearinghouse object entries, this command deletes the entries in
 a directory specified in tree-name and replaces them with soft
 links. These soft links redirect lookups of the names from their
 old (source) locations to their new (target) locations. Using
 this command preserves both the clearinghouse object entry and
 its enclosing directory while deleting the directory's contents
 and replacing each name with an individual soft link. The optional
 recursion notation (...) also applies the delete and replace
 operation to the contents of all child directories of tree-name.

 ACCESS RIGHTS
 You must have read, write, and delete access to the directory you
 specify as well as the contents of the directory. If you use the
 command recursively, you also need read, write, and delete access
 to all child directories (and their contents) of the directory you
 specify.

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