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MYISAMLOG(1)                                MySQL Database System                               MYISAMLOG(1)



NAME
       myisamlog - display MyISAM log file contents

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

DESCRIPTION
       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 understands 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.

COPYRIGHT
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SEE ALSO
       For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed
       locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/

AUTHOR
       MySQL AB (http://www.mysql.com/)  This software comes with no warranty.



MySQL 5.0                                        07/04/2007                                     MYISAMLOG(1)