可是今儿给大家介绍个好用的命令--prompt
 
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[root@fsailing1 ~]#  -uroot -p --prompt="\\u@\\h:\\d \\r:\\m:\\s>"  
Enter password:  
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.  
Your MySQL connection id is 378    www.2cto.com  
Server version: 5.0.95 Source distribution  
  
Copyright (c) 2000, 2011,  and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  
  
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its  
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective  
owners.  
  
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.  
  
root@localhost:(none) 08:23:32>use test;  
 
Reading table information for completion of table and column names  
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A  
  
Database changed  
root@localhost:test 08:23:44>exit;  
 
这样做的好处就是让我们大家在操作数据库时更加方便快捷。
 
您也可以在在my.cnf配置文件里进行配置：
 
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[mysql]  
prompt=mysql(\\u@\\h:\\d)>  
  
default-character-set=utf8  
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[root@fsailing1 ~]# vim /etc/my.cnf  
[root@fsailing1 ~]# service mysqld restart  
停止 MySQL：                                               [确定]  
启动 MySQL：                                               [确定]  
[root@fsailing1 ~]# mysql -uroot -p  
Enter password:  
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.  
Your MySQL connection id is 2    www.2cto.com  
Server version: 5.0.95 Source distribution  
  
Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  
  
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its  
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective  
owners.  
  
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.  
  
mysql(root@localhost:(none))>use test;  
Reading table information for completion of table and column names  
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A  
  
Database changed  
mysql(root@localhost:test)>  
 
这里也给出需要的一些个选项供大家参考。
 
Option Description
\c A counter that increments for each statement you issue
\D The full current date
\d The default database
\h The server host
\l The current delimiter (new in 5.1.12)
\m Minutes of the current time
\n A newline character
\O The current month in three-letter format (Jan, Feb, …)
\o The current month in numeric format
\P am/pm
\p The current TCP/IP port or socket file
\R The current time, in 24-hour military time (0–23)
\r The current time, standard 12-hour time (1–12)
\S Semicolon
\s Seconds of the current time
\t A tab character
\U  www.2cto.com  
Your full user_name@host_name account name
 
\u Your user name
\v The server version
\w The current day of the week in three-letter format (Mon, Tue, …)
\Y The current year, four digits
\y The current year, two digits
\_ A space
\ A space (a space follows the backslash)
\' Single quote
\" Double quote
\\ A literal “\” backslash character
\x
x, for any “x” not listed above