You need to use the show databases SQL command. First you need to login as MySQL database root user using mysql command line client. Type the following command to login with a password at a shell prompt:
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$ mysql -u USERNAME -h HOSTNAME -p
$ mysql -u root -p
At mysql prompt type the following command (
mysql> show databases;
Sample output:
+--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | mysql | | wiki | +--------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.03 sec)
Of course your can use the following shell one liner to get the list of all databases too:
# Connect to the local server mysql -u root -h localhost -p -e 'show databases;' # Connect to the remove mysql server mysql -u root -h 192.168.1.250 -p -e 'show databases;' |
Sample outputs:
For your shell script, you can just get a list of all of databases using the following syntax:
mysql -u root -h localhost -p'MyPasswordHere' -e 'show databases;' | awk '{ print $1 }' # OR store it in $DBS shell variable DBS=$(mysql -u root -h localhost -p'MyPasswordHere' -e 'show databases;' | awk '{ print $1 }') echo "List of database - $DBS" |
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for me some of the databases are not listing wven though complete privilleges are given and i checked same on mysql.db table also .Please help me out
from script
mysql -u username -pxxxxxx -Bse ‘show databases’
thanks :)
Task: Develop a PHPMyAdmin Input: Hostname, Username, Password.
Output: List all databases & table names which are associated with the given username & password.please guys,can anyone tell me how to do it?thanks in advance
Thanks. It was really useful.