--port (-P)

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Port to connect to

mariadb-shell [{--port | -P} <port_number>]

Option	Default Behavior	Argument
`--port` `-P`	If omitted, MariaDB Shell tries to connect to the default port (`3306`)	Port number

To connect to a host using a non-standard port number:

$ mariadb-shell \
   --host host.example.com \
   --port 43306 \
   --user user_name \
   --password 'user_password'

To use the short option names, the equivalent command is:

$ mariadb-shell \
   -h host.example.com \
   -P 43306 \
   -u user_name \
   -p 'user_password'

Release Series	History
23.03	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 23.03.1.
23.02	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 23.02.1.
23.01	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 23.01.1.
22.12	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 22.12.1.
22.10	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 22.10.3.