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Dec 312009
 

How to pretty print my.cnf with a one-liner?

Answer:

A very cool command.

perl -ne 'm/^([^#][^\s=]+)\s*(=.*|)/ && printf("%-35s%s\n", $1, $2)' /etc/my.cnf

Reference: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/06/15/how-to-pretty-print-mycnf-with-a-one-liner/

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