Hello All,

Thank you for reading this email.

I have the following Configuration Windows 2000 Server MySQL Win32 Binaries Installed Current Release of Cygwin installed

I am trying to access mysql from the bash shell rather than the command line. It was working fine until now, but for some reason I can't issue commands to mysql from the bash shell. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Cygwin. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall MySQL.

But the problem is still there. I can connect from the C: prompt and I can issue a select statement from the BASH shell if I put the -e flag after mysql., but I can not just type mysql and get the standard, Welcome to MySQL blah blah..

example. $ mysql

nothing happens. But if I do this $ mysql -e "select * from user" mysql

I get rows returned.

If anyone can shed some light on this problem, I would appreciate it. I am a newbie at GNU Shells.

Thanks