8.1 Working With Start-Up Scripts

When MySQL Shell enters either into JavaScript or Python mode, it searches for startup scripts to be executed. The startup scripts are JavaScript or Python specific scripts containing the instructions to be executed when the corresponding mode is initialized.

Startup scripts must be named as follows:

• For JavaScript mode: mysqlshrc.js

• For Python mode: mysqlshrc.py

MySQL Shell searches the following paths for these files (in order of execution).

On Windows:

1. %PROGRAMDATA%\MySQL\mysqlsh\mysqlshrc.[js|py]

2. %MYSQLSH_HOME%\shared\mysqlsh\mysqlshrc.[js|py]

3. <mysqlsh binary path>\mysqlshrc.[js|py]

4. %APPDATA%\MySQL\mysqlsh\mysqlshrc.[js|py]

On Linux and OSX:

1. /etc/mysql/mysqlsh/mysqlshrc.[js|py]

2. $MYSQLSH_HOME/shared/mysqlsh/mysqlshrc.[js|py]

3. <mysqlsh binary path>/mysqlshrc.[js|py]

4. $HOME/.mysqlsh/mysqlshrc.[js|py]

Warning

The lists above also define the order of searching the paths, so if something is defined in two different scripts, the script executed later takes precedence.

The environment variable MYSQLSH_HOME, used in option 2, defines the root folder of a standard setup of MySQL Shell. If MYSQLSH_HOME is not defined it is automatically calculated based on the location of the MySQL Shell binary, therefore on many standard setups it is not required to define MYSQLSH_HOME.

If MYSQLSH_HOME is not defined and the MySQL Shell binary is not in a standard install folder structure, then the path defined in option 3 in the above lists is used. If using a standard install or if MYSQLSH_HOME points to a standard install folder structure, then the path defined in option 3 is not used.

The user configuration path in option 4 can be overridden on all platforms by defining the environment variable MYSQL_USER_CONFIG_HOME. The value of this variable replaces %AppData%\MySQL\mysqlsh\ on Windows or ~/.mysqlsh/ on Unix.