Bug #2864 support minimal CLI
Submitted: 18 Feb 2004 5:22 Modified: 20 Feb 2004 20:18
Reporter: Dennis Haney Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Administrator Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:1.0.1a OS:Linux (linux)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[18 Feb 2004 5:22] Dennis Haney 
Description:
The program should respond to trivial commandline arguments like
--help
-h
-v
--version
--usage
-? (windows only)

and other arguments from other mysql programs:
-S/--socket
-u/--user
-p/--password
-h/--host
-P/--port
--ssl
-C/--compress
--variable-name=value

How to repeat:
run program with --help, program opens when a help should have been displayed
[20 Feb 2004 20:18] Alfredo Kojima 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our
source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the
next release.

If necessary, you can access the source repository and build the latest
available version, including the bugfix, yourself. More information 
about accessing the source trees is available at
    http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Installing_source_tree.html

Additional info:

The options were added in the development version.