How to connect to MySQL on a Plesk server via commandline

Posted on: February 19, 2015

This is a quick tip.
If you need to connect to the MySQL databases via command line on a plesk server, simply issue this command.

 

mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`

 

Note:  Those are backticks around the cat command, not single quotes.  The backtick is the same key as the ~ key on your keyboard.

 

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