mysqlshow
display database, table, and column information
Synopsis
mysqlshow
[options] [db_name
[tbl_name
[col_name]]]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
source
/usr/bin/mysqlshow -p mysql user
source
printConfigValidation 'testing connection
...'
handleVerboseDb()
{
if [[ $verbose > 1 ]]; then
mysqlshowResult= mysqlshow --version -u $dbUser -p$dbPassword
$db;
mysqlshowResult=
mysqlshow --version -u $dbUser
-p$dbPassword $db;
return;
fi
mysqlshow --version -u $dbUser
-p$dbPassword $db;
description
The
mysqlshow client can be used to quickly see which
databases exist, their tables, or a table's columns or
indexes.
mysqlshow
provides a command-line interface to several SQL SHOW
statements. See Section 13.7.5, “SHOW
Syntax”. The same information can be obtained by using
those statements directly. For example, you can issue them
from the mysql client program.
Invoke
mysqlshow like this:
shell>
mysqlshow [options] [db_name
[tbl_name
[col_name]]]
• If no
database is given, a list of database names is shown.
• If no
table is given, all matching tables in the database are
shown.
• If no
column is given, all matching columns and column types in
the table are shown.
The output
displays only the names of those databases, tables, or
columns for which you have some privileges.
If the last
argument contains shell or SQL wildcard characters
(“*”, “?”, “%”, or
“_”), only those names that are matched by the
wildcard are shown. If a database name contains any
underscores, those should be escaped with a backslash (some
Unix shells require two) to get a list of the proper tables
or columns. “*” and “?” characters
are converted into SQL “%” and “_”
wildcard characters. This might cause some confusion when
you try to display the columns for a table with a
“_” in the name, because in this case,
mysqlshow shows you only the table names that match
the pattern. This is easily fixed by adding an extra
“%” last on the command line as a separate
argument.
mysqlshow
supports the following options, which can be specified on
the command line or in the [mysqlshow] and [client] groups
of an option file. mysqlshow also supports the
options for processing option files described at
Section 4.2.3.4, “Command-Line Options that
Affect Option-File Handling”.
•
--help, -?
Display a help
message and exit.
•
--bind-address=ip_address
On a computer
having multiple network interfaces, this option can be used
to select which interface is employed when connecting to the
MySQL server.
This option is
supported only in the version of mysqlshow that is
supplied with MySQL Cluster. It is not available in standard
MySQL Server 5.5 releases.
•
--character-sets-dir=path
The directory
where character sets are installed. See Section 10.5,
“Character Set Configuration”.
•
--compress, -C
Compress all
information sent between the client and the server if both
support compression.
•
--count
Show the number
of rows per table. This can be slow for non-MyISAM
tables.
•
--debug[=debug_options],
-# [debug_options]
Write a
debugging log. A typical debug_options string is
'd:t:o,file_name'. The default is 'd:t:o'.
•
--debug-check
Print some
debugging information when the program exits.
•
--debug-info
Print debugging
information and memory and CPU usage statistics when the
program exits.
•
--default-character-set=charset_name
Use
charset_name as the default character set. See
Section 10.5, “Character Set
Configuration”.
•
--default-auth=plugin
The
client-side authentication plugin to use. See
Section 6.3.6, “Pluggable
Authentication”.
This option was
added in MySQL 5.5.10.
•
--host=host_name, -h
host_name
Connect to the
MySQL server on the given host.
•
--keys, -k
Show table
indexes.
•
--password[=password],
-p[password]
The password to
use when connecting to the server. If you use the short
option form (-p), you cannot have a
space between the option and the password. If you omit the
password value following the
--password or -p option on
the command line, mysqlshow prompts for one.
Specifying a
password on the command line should be considered insecure.
See Section 6.1.2.1, “End-User Guidelines for
Password Security”. You can use an option file to
avoid giving the password on the command line.
•
--pipe, -W
On Windows,
connect to the server using a named pipe. This option
applies only if the server supports named-pipe
connections.
•
--plugin-dir=path
The directory
in which to look for plugins. It may be necessary to specify
this option if the --default-auth
option is used to specify an authentication plugin but
mysqlshow does not find it. See Section 6.3.6,
“Pluggable Authentication”.
This option was
added in MySQL 5.5.10.
•
--port=port_num, -P
port_num
The TCP/IP port
number to use for the connection.
•
--protocol={TCP|SOCKET|PIPE|MEMORY}
The connection
protocol to use for connecting to the server. It is useful
when the other connection parameters normally would cause a
protocol to be used other than the one you want. For details
on the permissible values, see Section 4.2.2,
“Connecting to the MySQL Server”.
•
--show-table-type,
-t
Show a column
indicating the table type, as in SHOW FULL TABLES. The type
is BASE TABLE or VIEW.
•
--socket=path, -S
path
For connections
to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on Windows,
the name of the named pipe to use.
•
--ssl*
Options that
begin with --ssl specify whether to
connect to the server using SSL and indicate where to find
SSL keys and certificates. See Section 6.3.8.4,
“SSL Command Options”.
•
--status, -i
Display extra
information about each table.
•
--user=user_name, -u
user_name
The MySQL user
name to use when connecting to the server.
•
--verbose, -v
Verbose mode.
Print more information about what the program does. This
option can be used multiple times to increase the amount of
information.
•
--version, -V
Display version
information and exit.
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mysqlshow
[col_name]]]
see also
For
more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference
Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is
also available online at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
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