MYISAMLOG(1)

NAME
myisamlog - display MyISAM log file contents
isamlog - display contents of ISAM log file

SYNOPSIS

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

isamlog [options] [log_file [tbl_name] ...]

DESCRIPTION

myisamlog processes the contents of a MyISAM log file. isamlog is similar, but is used with ISAM log files.

Invoke myisamlog or isamloglike 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 and isamlog understand 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
isamchk(1), isamlog(1), msql2mysql(1), myisam_ftdump(1), myisamchk(1), myisampack(1), mysql(1), mysql.server(1), mysql_config(1), mysql_explain_log(1), mysql_fix_privilege_tables(1), mysql_zap(1), mysqlaccess(1), mysqladmin(1), mysqlbinlog(1), mysqlcheck(1), mysqld(1), mysqld(8), mysqld_multi(1), mysqld_safe(1), mysqldump(1), mysqlhotcopy(1), mysqlimport(1), mysqlshow(1), pack_isam(1), perror(1), replace(1), safe_mysqld(1)

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.