MySQL Bugs: #63672: mysql --init-command is not documented

Bug #63672	mysql --init-command is not documented
Submitted:	8 Dec 2011 15:28	Modified:	7 Mar 2012 2:48
Reporter:	Bill Karwin (Candidate Quality Contributor) (OCA)	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Documentation	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.5.18	OS:	Any
Assigned to:	John Russell	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
The mysql monitor supports a command option --init-command.  

This option works fine, approximately as expected given its description in the help text.

However, the option is not documented in the manual for mysql monitor options.

How to repeat:
1. Demonstrate that the option works:

$ mysql --init-command="SET @somevar:=100"

mysql> select @somevar;
+----------+
| @somevar |
+----------+
|      100 |
+----------+

2. Observe that this option appears in the output of mysql --help:

  --init-command=name SQL Command to execute when connecting to MySQL server.

2. Observe that the option is documented at the connection API level:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-options.html

3. Observe that the option does not appear in the manual for the mysql monitor, whereas other general connection API options are, for example --compress, --local-infile, etc. 

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-command-options.html

Suggested fix:
Please at least add the help text for this option to the manual for mysql monitor command options.

For the C-API it is documented here: 
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-options.html

But not for the command line client it seems
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-command-options.html

Peter
(not a MySQL person)

oops .. nothing new in my post. sorry.

Thank you for the documentation request.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been addressed in the documentation. The updated documentation will appear on our website shortly, and will be included in the next release of the relevant products.