MyCLI: Command line interface with auto-completion for MySQL, MariaDB and Percona

MyCLI is an easy-to-use command line interface (CLI) for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting to help speed up your development.

Prerequisites

The MyCLI tool is based on Python and must be installed via PIP. Make sure you have the pip and python development libraries installed. With the ECS instance set up correctly, all you have to do is run the following three lines of code to install MyCLI.

yum install python-pip
yum -y install python-devel
pip install mycli

MyCLI details

If you don't know how to use MyCLI, you can always run the —help command to find out about its various options, as shown below.

$ mycli --help
 Usage: mycli [OPTIONS] [DATABASE]

 Options:
   -h, --host TEXT               Host address of the database.
   -P, --port INTEGER            Port number to use for connection. Honors
                                 $MYSQL_TCP_PORT
   -u, --user TEXT               User name to connect to the database.
   -S, --socket TEXT             The socket file to use for connection.
   -p, --password TEXT           Password to connect to the database
   --pass TEXT                   Password to connect to the database
   --ssl-ca PATH                 CA file in PEM format
   --ssl-capath TEXT             CA directory
   --ssl-cert PATH               X509 cert in PEM format
   --ssl-key PATH                X509 key in PEM format
   --ssl-cipher TEXT             SSL cipher to use
   --ssl-verify-server-cert      Verify server's "Common Name" in its cert
                                 against hostname used when connecting. This
                                 option is disabled by default
   -v, --version                 Version of mycli.
   -D, --database TEXT           Database to use.
   -R, --prompt TEXT             Prompt format (Default: "\t \u@\h:\d> ")
   -l, --logfile FILENAME        Log every query and its results to a file.
   --defaults-group-suffix TEXT  Read config group with the specified suffix.
   --defaults-file PATH          Only read default options from the given file
   --myclirc PATH                Location of myclirc file.
   --auto-vertical-output        Automatically switch to vertical output mode
                                 if the result is wider than the terminal
                                 width.
   -t, --table                   Display batch output in table format.
   --csv                         Display batch output in CSV format.
   --warn / --no-warn            Warn before running a destructive query.
   --local-infile BOOLEAN        Enable/disable LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE.
   --login-path TEXT             Read this path from the login file.
   -e, --execute TEXT            Execute query to the database.
   --help                        Show this message and exit.

Example of use

Simply run the following command to run MyCLI on your ApsaraDB for RDS instance.

$ mycli ®Ch{RDS DNS Alias} ®Cu{RDS User Name} -p{RDS Password}

Once connected, you can use MyCLI in the same way you would use the default CLI.

To read more

Alibaba Cloud also provides its own command auto-completion function on Alibaba Cloud CLI. For more information, please visit https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/29998.html Please give me.

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