MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

Options on the command line

With the command line program options, follow these rules:

• Options are followed by the program name.
• Option arguments begin with a single dash or double dashes, depending on if they are using the short form or the longer form of the option name.
• The option name is case sensitive. For example, -V and -v are both valid as they are the respective short forms for --verbose and --version, thus stating different meanings to the program.
• Options can also take a value followed by the option name. For example, -h localhost or --host=localhost tells the client program to take the localhost as the hostname.
• With a short option that takes a value, the value can follow the option letter immediately or the single space between ...