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List:       mysql
Subject:    Re: Stop Scrolling
From:       Chris <listschris () leftbrained ! org>
Date:       2004-05-31 21:52:10
Message-ID: 40BBA90A.90908 () leftbrained ! org
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Rhino wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <kc68@cornell.edu>
>To: <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
>Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 2:20 PM
>Subject: Stop Scrolling
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>>Ultimately simple, but I don't find the answer:  how to stop a list from
>>scrolling to the bottom when the command SHOW TABLES is entered.
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>I was wondering that myself so I took a look in the manual and found
>something promising: pager. See
>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql_Commands.html
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>Based on that article, it *looks* like the 'pager' command can be set to
>'more' or 'less' or 'cat' or whatever you usually use. I can't quite
>understand how to use it though. Maybe you can make sense of it though. If
>you figure it out, maybe you could post a short explanation for the rest of
>us ;-)
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>Rhino
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I use it like this:

mysql>pager less -n -i -S

Then, every query output will be run through less (with the attributes 
-n -i -S, you can change these). It only works in the Unix MySQL client.

Chris

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