MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

Executing MySQL programs

To execute a MySQL program, enter the program name followed by options or any other arguments required to tell the program what you want it to do. Following are some sample executing commands. Here shell> represents the command interpreter. Typical prompts will be c:>\ for a Windows machine with command.com or cmd.exe as the command interpreter, $ for a Unix machine with sh, ksh or bash as the command interpreter, and % for a Mac machine with csh or tcsh as the command interpreter:

shell> mysql --verbose --helpshell> mysql --user=root --password=******** mysampledbshell> mysqldump -u root personnelshell> mysqlshow --help 

There are nonoption arguments, arguments without any leading dash, giving supplementary information ...