Commit 8ce6b647 authored by jani@prima.mysql.com's avatar jani@prima.mysql.com

Added documentation about the mysql client.

parent 24f75730
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For logging, one can use the @code{tee} option. The @code{tee} can be
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@item
For logging, you can use the @code{tee} option. The @code{tee} can be
started with option @code{--tee=...}, or from the command line
interactively with command @code{tee}. All the data displayed on the
screen will also be appended into a given file. This can be very useful
......@@ -28810,7 +28812,7 @@ starts logging again. Without a parameter the previous file will be
used. Note that @code{tee} will flush the results into the file after
each command, just before the command line appears again waiting for the
next command.
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Browsing, or searching the results in the interactive mode in UNIX less,
more, or any other similar program, is now possible with option
@code{--pager[=...]}. Without argument, @code{mysql} client will look
......@@ -28824,11 +28826,48 @@ will default to stdout. @code{pager} works only in UNIX, since it uses
the popen() function, which doesn't exist in Windows. In Windows, the
@code{tee} option can be used instead, although it may not be as handy
as @code{pager} can be in some situations.
You can even combine the two functions above; have the @code{tee}
@item
A few tips about @code{pager}: You can use it to write to a file:
@example
mysql> pager cat > /tmp/log.txt
@end example
and the results will only go to a file. You can also pass any options
for the programs that you want to use with the @code{pager}:
@example
mysql> pager less -n -i -S
@end example
From the above do note the option '-S'. You may find it very useful when
browsing the results; try the option with horizontal output (end
commands with '\g', or ';') and with vertical output (end commands with
'\G'). Sometimes a very wide result set is hard to be read from the screen,
with option -S to less you can browse the results within the interactive
less from left to right, preventing lines longer than your screen from
being continued to the next line. This can make the result set much more
readable. You can swith the mode between on and off within the interactive
less with '-S'. See the 'h' for more help about less.
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Last (unless you already understood this from the above examples ;) you
can combine very complex ways to handle the results, for example the
following would send the results to two files in two different
directories, on two different hard-disks mounted on /dr1 and /dr2, yet
let the results still be seen on the screen via less:
@example
mysql> pager cat | tee /dr1/tmp/res.txt | tee /dr2/tmp/res2.txt | less -n -i -S
@end example
@item
You can also combine the two functions above; have the @code{tee}
enabled, @code{pager} set to 'less' and you will be able to browse the
results in unix 'less' and still have everything appended into a file
the same time.
the same time. The difference between @code{UNIX tee} used with the
@code{pager} and the @code{mysql} client in-built @code{tee}, is that
the in-built @code{tee} works even if you don't have the @code{UNIX tee}
available. The in-built @code{tee} also logs everything that is printed
on the screen, where the @code{UNIX tee} used with @code{pager} doesn't
log quite that much. Last, but not least, the interactive @code{tee} is
more handy to switch on and off, when you want to log something into a
file, but want to be able to turn the feature off sometimes.
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