Batch statements

[Rich Miller]

I can't find any other forum that would be a better place for this question, so here goes:

I've created a file with several commands, and I'm executing the commands in the file by "source"ing the file in the mysql client. I'd like to include some statements that are output as the commands are executed. Are there any mysql commands that operate like a "print" or "echo" command?

For example:
....................
print "Now executing first insert..."
INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, "blah blah", 35);

print "Now executing second insert..."
INSERT INTO othertest VALUES (2, "blah blah, 22);
....................

Without any kind of intermediate print statements, I know I'll get the result of the operation ("1 row affected", etc.), but if there are any errors it will be tedious to go through the output and figure out which statement(s) produced the error(s).

Thanks for any assistance you can provide,
Rich