MySQL Bugs: #1184: mysqlimport option structure error

Bug #1184	mysqlimport option structure error
Submitted:	2 Sep 2003 19:07	Modified:	8 Sep 2003 1:57
Reporter:	Paul DuBois	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Command-line Clients	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	MySQL 4 and up	OS:	Any (all)
Assigned to:	Victor Vagin	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The --ignore-lines option for mysqlimport
takes a numeric argument, but the option
structure treats it as a string:

  {"ignore-lines", OPT_IGN_LINES, "Ignore first n lines of data infile.",
   (gptr*) &opt_ignore_lines, (gptr*) &opt_ignore_lines, 0, GET_STR,

The associated code handles opt_ignore_lines as a string, but
this really isn't right, because the client library code that
generates the help message then produces this output:

  --ignore-lines=name Ignore first n lines of data infile.

It shouldn't say "=name", but that's how the library
generates help output for string options.  This is
misleading.

How to repeat:
mysqlimport --help | grep ignore-lines

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fixed in mysql-4.0 and will be fixed in upper version when merge will be done