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isamlog

ISAMLOG(1)						      General Commands Manual							ISAMLOG(1)

NAME

       isamlog - Write info about whats in a nisam log file.

USAGE

       isamlog [-?iruvIV] [-c #] [-f #] [-F filepath/] [-o #] [-R file recordpos] [-w write_file] [log-filename [table ...]]

SYNOPSIS

       isamlog [-?|-I] [-V] [-c] [-f] [-F] [-i] [-o] [-p #] [-r] [-R] [-u] [-v] [-w]

DESCRIPTION

       isamlog

       -?|-I  info

       -V     version

       -c     do only # commands

       -f     max open files

       -F     file path

       -i     extra info

       -o     offset

       -p #   remove # components from path

       -r     recover

       -R     file recordposition

       -u     update

       -v     verbose

       -w     write file

NOTE

       If  no  file name is given isam.log is used One can give a second and a third '-v' for more verbose.  Normaly one does a update (-u).  If a
       recover is done all writes and all possibly updates and deletes is done and errors are only counted.  If one gives table names as arguments
       only these tables will be updated

SEE ALSO

       isamchk	(1),  isamlog (1), mysqlaccess (1), mysqladmin (1), mysqlbug (1), mysqld (1), mysqldump (1), mysqlshow (1), msql2mysql (1), perror
       (1), replace (1), safe_mysqld (1), which1 (1), zap (1),

AUTHOR

       Ver 1.0, distribution 3.23.29a Michael (Monty) Widenius (monty@tcx.se), TCX Datakonsult AB (http://www.tcx.se).	This software  comes  with
       no  warranty.  Manual page by L. (Kill-9) Pedersen (kill-9@kill-9.dk), Mercurmedia Data Model Architect / system developer (http://www.mer-
       curmedia.com)

								 20 December 2000							ISAMLOG(1)