How to best display in Terminal a MySQL SELECT returning too many fields?

Question

I\'m using PuTTY to run:

mysql> SELECT * FROM sometable;

sometable has many fields and this results in many columns trying

Answer 1

If you are using MySQL interactively, you can set your pager to use sed like this:

$ mysql -u  p
mysql> pager sed 's/,/\n/g' 
PAGER set to 'sed 's/,/\n/g''
mysql> SELECT blah FROM blah WHERE blah = blah 
.
.
.
"blah":"blah"
"blah":"blah"
"blah":"blah"

If you don't use sed as the pager, the output is like this:

"blah":"blah","blah":"blah","blah":"blah"