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Section: MySQL Database System (1)
Updated: 06/02/2017
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NAME

mysql_find_rows - extract SQL statements from files

SYNOPSIS

mysql_find_rows [options] [file_name ...]

DESCRIPTION

: Note; This utility is deprecated in MySQL 5.6.17 and removed in MySQL 5.7

mysql_find_rows reads files containing SQL statements and extracts statements that match a given regular expression or that contain USE db_name or SET statements. The utility expects statements to be terminated with semicolon (;) characters.

Invoke mysql_find_rows like this:

shell> mysql_find_rows [options] [file_name ...]

Each file_name argument should be the name of file containing SQL statements. If no file names are given, mysql_find_rows reads the standard input.

Examples:

mysql_find_rows --regexp=problem_table --rows=20 < update.log
mysql_find_rows --regexp=problem_table  update-log.1 update-log.2

mysql_find_rows supports the following options:

: * --help, --Information
Display a help message and exit.

: * --regexp=pattern
Display queries that match the pattern.

: * --rows=N
Quit after displaying N queries.

: * --skip-use-db
Do not include USE db_name statements in the output.

: * --start_row=N
Start output from this row.

COPYRIGHT

This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

AUTHOR

Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).