From: Dan Nelson
Date: September 27 2008 4:44pm
Subject: Re: Tables are too wide
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In the last episode (Sep 27), Alex Katebi said:
> Hi,
> 
>   When selecting (example: select * from mysql.db ) some of the mysql
> database tables the result set does not fit in a standard xterm window. Is
> there any terminal display program in Linux that has a horizontal scroll bar
> that I can use? Or what can I do to split the table output to fit on my
> screen?

You can pipe results though less (which can display long lines
unwrapped with -S) by running "pager" before sending your query. 
"nopager" turnes it off.  

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	Dan Nelson
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