mariadb-find-rows(1)

mariadb-find-rows1

Extract sql statements from files (mariadb-find-rows is now a symlink to mariadb-find-rows)

Usage

mariadb-find-rows [options] [file_name ...]

Overview

mariadb-find-rows reads files containing SQL statements and extracts statements that match a given regular expression or that contain USE db_name or SET statements. The utility was written for use with update log files (as used prior to MySQL 5.0) and as such expects statements to be terminated with semicolon (;) characters. It may be useful with other files that contain SQL statements as long as statements are terminated with semicolons.

Invoke mariadb-find-rows like this:

shell> mariadb-find-rows [options] [file_name ...]

Each file_name argument should be the name of file containing SQL statements. If no file names are given, mariadb-find-rows reads the standard input.

Examples:

mariadb-find-rows --regexp=problem_table --rows=20 < update.log
mariadb-find-rows --regexp=problem_table  update-log.1 update-log.2

mariadb-find-rows supports the following options:

• --help, --Information

Display a help message and exit.

• --regexp=pattern

Display queries that match the pattern.

• --rows=N

Quit after displaying N queries.

• --skip-use-db

Do not include USE db_name statements in the output.

• --start_row=N

Start output from this row.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13–Arch

Author

MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

From mariadb 13.0.2-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by mariadb-lts. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.