What is the location of mysql client “.my.cnf” in XAMPP for Windows?

Question

What is the location of mysql client .my.cnf using XAMPP in Windows?

Clarification: This file does not exist by default, so when you cr

Answer 1

Go to control panel → services, look for MySQL and right click choose properties. If there, in “path to EXE file”, there is a parameter like

--defaults-file="X:\path\to\my.ini"

this is the file the server actually uses (independent of what mysql --help prints).