Question

I cant find anything about this from searching here.

I use mysql on the command line at work and I work with fairly large tables so I set the mysql pager allowing a more readable result if I run a query, that returns 1000’s of results. I use the command below to set the pager.

\P less -Sin

This suits my needs but has left me wondering if there are any more pager styles that mysql uses on the command line.

Answer 1

The MySQL client just passes its output to whatever command you specify with \P (for “Pager”).

-Sin are commandline switches to the program less. From man less:

-i Causes searches to ignore case
-n Suppresses line numbers
-S Causes lines longer than the screen width to be chopped rather than folded.

For more options of the MySQL client, see reference.