mariadb-show & mysqlshow for MariaDB Community Server 10.6

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The parent of this page is: Command-Line Interfaces for MariaDB Community Server 10.6

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Overview
mariadb-show Options for MariaDB Community Server 10.6

Overview

The mariadb-show utility is used to show details about databases, tables, table columns, indexes, and other database objects with MariaDB Community Server 10.6.

MariaDB Community Server 10.6 also provides a symbolic link to the utility's legacy name (mysqlshow).

mariadb-show Options for MariaDB Community Server 10.6

Option	Description
--character-sets-dir (-c)	Directory for character set files.
--compress (-C)	Use compression in server/client protocol.
--count	Show number of rows per table (may be slow for non-MyISAM tables).
--debug (-#)	Output debug log. Often this is 'd:t:o,filename'.
--debug-check	Check memory and open file usage at exit.
--debug-info	Print some debug info at exit.
--default-auth	Default authentication client-side plugin to use.
--default-character-set	Set the default character set.
--defaults-extra-file	Read this file after the global files are read.
--defaults-file	Only read default options from the given file #.
--defaults-group-suffix	Additionally read default groups with # appended as a suffix.
--help (-?)	Display this help and exit.
--host (-h)	Connect to host.
--keys (-k)	Show keys for table.
--no-defaults	Don't read default options from any option file.
--password (-p)	Password to use when connecting to server. If password is not given, it's solicited on the tty.
--plugin-dir	Directory for client-side plugins.
--port (-P)	Port number to use for connection or 0 for default to, in order of preference, my.cnf, $MYSQL_TCP_PORT, /etc/services, built-in default (3306).
--print-defaults	Print the program argument list and exit.
--protocol	The protocol to use for connection (tcp, socket, pipe).
--show-table-type (-t)	Show table type column.
--socket (-S)	The socket file to use for connection.
--ssl	Enable SSL for connection (automatically enabled with other flags).
--ssl-ca	CA file in PEM format (check OpenSSL docs, implies --ssl).
--ssl-capath	CA directory (check OpenSSL docs, implies --ssl).
--ssl-cert	X509 cert in PEM format (implies --ssl).
--ssl-cipher	SSL cipher to use (implies --ssl).
--ssl-crl	Certificate revocation list (implies --ssl).
--ssl-crlpath	Certificate revocation list path (implies --ssl).
--ssl-key	X509 key in PEM format (implies --ssl).
--ssl-verify-server-cert	Verify server's "Common Name" in its cert against hostname used when connecting. This option is disabled by default.
--status (-i)	Shows a lot of extra information about each table.
--tls-version	TLS protocol version for secure connection.
--user (-u)	User for login if not current user.
--verbose (-v)	More verbose output; you can use this multiple times to get even more verbose output.
--version (-V)	Output version information and exit.

To see options supported in other versions, see "mariadb-show & mysqlshow Options by MariaDB Server Version".