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www.it-ebooks.infoCHAPTER 27 • THE MANY MYSQL CLIENTS%>mysql -u jason --prompt="(\u@\h) [\d]> " -p corporateOnce you’re logged into the console, the prompt will appear like so:(jason@localhost) [corporate]>To render the change more permanent, you can also make the change in the my.cnf file, under the[mysql] section:[mysql]...prompt=(\u@\h) [\d]>Finally, on Linux only, you can include the hostname on the prompt via the MYSQL_PS1 environmentvariable:%>export MYSQL_PS1="(\u@\h) [\d]> "■ Note A complete list of flags available to the prompt are available in the MySQL manual.Outputting Table Data in HTML and XMLThis cool but largely unknown feature of the mysql client allows you to output query results in XML andHTML formats, using the --xml (-X) and --html (-H) options, respectively. For example, suppose youwant to create an XML file consisting of the databases found on a given server. You could place thecommand SHOW DATABASES in a text file and then invoke the mysql client in batch mode, like so:%>mysql -X < showdb.sql > serverdatabases.xmlThe result is that a file named serverdatabases.xml is created that consists of output similar to thefollowing:information_schemacorporatetest511