Hi, Jaco,

Did you try adding

  [imariadb-client]
  binary-as-hex

to ~/.my.cnf ?

On Apr 07, Jaco Kroon via discuss wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This would be a mis-feature probably, but please bear with me.
> 
> Getting binary data dumped to a terminal is not fun.
> 
> Is there perhaps a way to set it such that *binary types would be
> displayed/presented as hex string rather than raw binary?  In
> particular when using CLI tools?
> 
> I'm aware of the HEX() function which achieves same, but you need to
> do that for every column, when inspecting data and just starting off
> with something like "select * from" ... I suspect having a flag to
> inform the cli client tools to present such binary columns as
> hexadecimal strings instead of dumping raw binary data to the terminal
> would be most helpful.
> 
> Sorry, just had a round of screeching in my ears from "bell"
> characters and was just wondering if there's a way to not only stop
> that, but present the data in a more sensible manner regardless,
> ideally some "opt in" mechanism to maintain backwards compatibility.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Jaco
> 
Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect, MariaDB Server
and [email protected]
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