I am a newby at shell commands and mysql but this is driving me crazy so I need some help
I connect to the local mysql server with a bat file like this
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@echo off
echo Starting MySQL command line...
mysql\bin\mysql.exe --user=root --password=xxxxxxx
pause
this works then I get the mysql> thing and when I type commands it works too
but when I try to access mysqldump like this
mysql> mysqldump --help
or any other command for mysqldump nothing happens, I just get this
mysql> mysqldump --help
->
no help appears, same as I try other commands for dumping or importing databases
so what am I doing wrong? ( and where does mysql dump actually dump the sql file? in the database directory itself?)
any help would be appreciated