MARIADB-FIND-ROWS(1) MariaDB Database System MARIADB-FIND-ROWS(1)
NAME
mariadb-find-rows - extract SQL statements from files (mariadb-find-rows
is now a symlink to mariadb-find-rows)
SYNOPSIS
mariadb-find-rows [options] [file_name ...]
DESCRIPTION
mariadb-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 was written for use with update
log files (as used prior to MySQL 5.0) and as such expects statements to
be terminated with semicolon (;) characters. It may be useful with other
files that contain SQL statements as long as statements are terminated
with semicolons.
Invoke mariadb-find-rows like this:
shell> mariadb-find-rows [options] [file_name ...]
Each file_name argument should be the name of file containing SQL
statements. If no file names are given, mariadb-find-rows reads the
standard input.
Examples:
mariadb-find-rows --regexp=problem_table --rows=20 < update.log
mariadb-find-rows --regexp=problem_table update-log.1 update-log.2
mariadb-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
Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
2010-2025 MariaDB Foundation
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modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
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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.
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51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA or see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base,
available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/
AUTHOR
MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).
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