Question

I’m setting up aliases for a new development environment and I would really like to be able to pass the pager less -S command to my mysql login.

I looked at the manual, all I could really see was the -e flag, however that quits once it’s done, so that did not work.

Ideally it would be like this:

mysql -uusername -ppassword dbname -e "pager less -S"

However, as explained that doesn’t work, any alternatives that you guys know of? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can have your own my.cnf file on a per-user basis. Create the file:

vi ~/.my.cnf

And add this to it:

[client]
pager = "less -S"