diff --git a/Moosh/Command/Moodle39/Dev/StringReplaceEncoded.php b/Moosh/Command/Moodle39/Dev/StringReplaceEncoded.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38a1f5a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Moosh/Command/Moodle39/Dev/StringReplaceEncoded.php
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * moosh - Moodle Shell
+ *
+ * @copyright  2012 onwards Tomasz Muras
+ * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
+ */
+
+namespace Moosh\Command\Moodle39\Dev;
+
+use Moosh\MooshCommand;
+
+class StringReplaceEncoded extends MooshCommand
+{
+    public function __construct()
+    {
+        // moosh string-replace-encoded from to table column
+        parent::__construct('replace-encoded', 'string');
+
+        $this->addArgument('from');
+        $this->addArgument('to');
+        $this->addArgument('table');
+        $this->addArgument('column');
+
+        $this->addOption('d|dry-run', "don't perform the UPDATE", false);
+
+    }
+
+
+    public function execute()
+    {
+        //some variables you may want to use
+        //$this->cwd - the directory where moosh command was executed
+        //$this->mooshDir - moosh installation directory
+        //$this->expandedOptions - commandline provided options, merged with defaults
+        //$this->topDir - top Moodle directory
+
+        global $CFG, $DB, $USER;
+
+        $from = $this->arguments[0];
+        $to = $this->arguments[1];
+        $table = $this->arguments[2];
+        $column = $this->arguments[3];
+        $dryrun = $this->expandedOptions['dry-run'];
+
+        $possiblerecords = $DB->get_records_sql("SELECT id, $column FROM {{$table}} WHERE $column != ''");
+        foreach ($possiblerecords as $possiblerecord) {
+            $decoded = base64_decode($possiblerecord->$column);
+            if (strpos($decoded, $from) === false) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            $unserialized = unserialize_object($decoded);
+
+            // Iterate over all public properties of the object
+            foreach ($unserialized as $key => $value) {
+                if (strpos($value, $from) !== false) {
+                    $unserialized->$key = str_replace($from, $to, $value);
+                    if ($this->verbose) {
+                        echo "Replacing in '$key' from\n$value\nto\n{$unserialized->$key}\n";
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            $encoded = base64_encode(serialize($unserialized));
+            if (!$dryrun) {
+                $DB->set_field($table, $column, $encoded, ['id' => $possiblerecord->id]);
+            }
+        }
+
+    }
+}
+
+
diff --git a/moosh.php b/moosh.php
index 4a13b655..65919103 100755
--- a/moosh.php
+++ b/moosh.php
@@ -68,9 +68,6 @@ function cli_error($text, $errorcode = 1) {
 }
 
 $moodle_version = moosh_moodle_version($top_dir);
-if (isset($app_options['verbose'])) {
-    echo "Moodle version detected: $moodle_version\n";
-}
 
 $local_dir = home_dir() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '.moosh';
 $viable_versions = moosh_generate_version_list($moodle_version);
@@ -342,6 +339,8 @@ function string_exists() {
 
 // Some more debug if requested.
 if ($app_options->has('verbose')) {
+    echo "Moodle version detected: $moodle_version\n";
+
     $subcommand->status();
 }