Re: Interrupt mysql output without exiting the mysql shell

Why would you want to do that?

Yer dumb.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Nathan Powell <nathan@...> wrote:
> I am probably going to do a bad job of explaining what I mean here, if
> so I apologize in advance.
>
> When using the mysql shell from the command line, I will sometimes do a
> select that gets a ton of results...
>
>  mysql> SELECT * FROM nathans_ideas WHERE type = 'not right';
>
> And the output will scroll by and by.  So I want to kill it with C-c
> (Control+c) however if you do that, it actually exits the Mysql Shell.
>
> I would have thought this was a property of Gnu-Readline and it would
> just grab the C-c and kill the current query.  Alas, that is not so.  Is
> there a way to do what I want without exiting the Mysql Shell?
>
> --
> nathan
> nathan_at_nathanpowell_dot_org
>
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