On Monday 13 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2009 23:42:08 kashani wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Not at all. What you are seeing when pressing the up arrow is not > > > commands stored by MySQl, but commands stored by your shell. It's > > > complex to explain, so bear with me: > > > > I don't know about complicated. > > > > cd > > more .mysql_history > > > > Works just like .bash_history > > > > kashani > > It's not .mysql_history that's complicated, it's the relationship between > the mysql user and the unix user (no relationship at all) and the resulting > clash of ideas in beginning user's minds that's complicated. > > Most people assume that the mysql client somehow works like ssh, that when > you get a ">" prompt you are logged in elsewhere. This of course, is not > true, as you well know.
Spot on! I thought that mysql> is a different shell, hence the panic. Thank you all for making this clear to me. -- Regards, Mick
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