myisamlog(1)

myisamlog1

Display myisam log file contents

Usage

myisamlog [options] [log_file [tbl_name] ...]

Overview

myisamlog processes the contents of a MyISAM log file.

Invoke myisamlog like this:

shell> myisamlog [options] [log_file [tbl_name] ...]
shell> isamlog [options] [log_file [tbl_name] ...]

The default operation is update (-u). If a recovery is done (-r), all writes and possibly updates and deletes are done and errors are only counted. The default log file name is myisam.log for myisamlog and isam.log for isamlog if no log_file argument is given. If tables are named on the command line, only those tables are updated.

myisamlog supports the following options:

• -?, -I

Display a help message and exit.

• -c N

Execute only N commands.

• -f N

Specify the maximum number of open files.

• -i

Display extra information before exiting.

• -o offset

Specify the starting offset.

• -p N

Remove N components from path.

• -r

Perform a recovery operation.

• -R record_pos_file record_pos

Specify record position file and record position.

• -u

Perform an update operation.

• -v

Verbose mode. Print more output about what the program does. This option can be given multiple times to produce more and more output.

• -w write_file

Specify the write file.

• -V

Display version information.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8
  8. 9
  9. 10
  10. 11
  11. 12
  12. 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, percona-server. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.