diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 0e69cbe7..eb245d70 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Upcoming (TBD)
 ==============
 
+Features
+--------
+* Add a `--checkpoint=` argument to log successful queries in batch mode.
+
+
 Bug Fixes
 --------
 * Fix timediff output when the result is a negative value (#1113).
diff --git a/mycli/main.py b/mycli/main.py
index 73593c3d..46893d4e 100755
--- a/mycli/main.py
+++ b/mycli/main.py
@@ -1322,7 +1322,12 @@ def get_prompt(self, string: str) -> str:
         string = string.replace("\\_", " ")
         return string
 
-    def run_query(self, query: str, new_line: bool = True) -> None:
+    def run_query(
+        self,
+        query: str,
+        checkpoint: TextIOWrapper | None = None,
+        new_line: bool = True,
+    ) -> None:
         """Runs *query*."""
         assert self.sqlexecute is not None
         self.log_query(query)
@@ -1362,6 +1367,9 @@ def run_query(self, query: str, new_line: bool = True) -> None:
                     )
                     for line in output:
                         click.echo(line, nl=new_line)
+        if checkpoint:
+            checkpoint.write(query.rstrip('\n') + '\n')
+            checkpoint.flush()
 
     def format_output(
         self,
@@ -1507,6 +1515,9 @@ def get_last_query(self) -> str | None:
 @click.option("--ssh-warning-off", is_flag=True, help="Suppress the SSH deprecation notice.")
 @click.option("-R", "--prompt", "prompt", help=f'Prompt format (Default: "{MyCli.default_prompt}").')
 @click.option("-l", "--logfile", type=click.File(mode="a", encoding="utf-8"), help="Log every query and its results to a file.")
+@click.option(
+    "--checkpoint", type=click.File(mode="a", encoding="utf-8"), help="In batch or --execute mode, log successful queries to a file."
+)
 @click.option("--defaults-group-suffix", type=str, help="Read MySQL config groups with the specified suffix.")
 @click.option("--defaults-file", type=click.Path(), help="Only read MySQL options from the given file.")
 @click.option("--myclirc", type=click.Path(), default="~/.myclirc", help="Location of myclirc file.")
@@ -1550,6 +1561,7 @@ def cli(
     verbose: bool,
     prompt: str | None,
     logfile: TextIOWrapper | None,
+    checkpoint: TextIOWrapper | None,
     defaults_group_suffix: str | None,
     defaults_file: str | None,
     login_path: str | None,
@@ -1876,7 +1888,7 @@ def cli(
             else:
                 mycli.main_formatter.format_name = 'tsv'
 
-            mycli.run_query(execute)
+            mycli.run_query(execute, checkpoint=checkpoint)
             sys.exit(0)
         except Exception as e:
             click.secho(str(e), err=True, fg="red")
@@ -1919,7 +1931,7 @@ def cli(
                     sys.exit(1)
             try:
                 if warn_confirmed:
-                    mycli.run_query(stdin_text, new_line=True)
+                    mycli.run_query(stdin_text, checkpoint=checkpoint, new_line=True)
             except Exception as e:
                 click.secho(str(e), err=True, fg="red")
                 sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/test/test_main.py b/test/test_main.py
index ebbed6c7..66a2ef85 100644
--- a/test/test_main.py
+++ b/test/test_main.py
@@ -346,6 +346,42 @@ def test_execute_arg(executor):
     assert expected in result.output
 
 
+@dbtest
+def test_execute_arg_with_checkpoint(executor):
+    run(executor, "create table test (a text)")
+    run(executor, 'insert into test values("abc")')
+
+    sql = "select * from test;"
+    runner = CliRunner()
+
+    with NamedTemporaryFile(mode="w", delete=False) as checkpoint:
+        checkpoint.close()
+
+    result = runner.invoke(cli, args=CLI_ARGS + ["--execute", sql, f"--checkpoint={checkpoint.name}"])
+    assert result.exit_code == 0
+
+    with open(checkpoint.name, 'r') as f:
+        contents = f.read()
+    assert sql in contents
+    os.remove(checkpoint.name)
+
+    sql = 'select 10 from nonexistent_table;'
+    result = runner.invoke(cli, args=CLI_ARGS + ["--execute", sql, f"--checkpoint={checkpoint.name}"])
+    assert result.exit_code != 0
+
+    with open(checkpoint.name, 'r') as f:
+        contents = f.read()
+    assert sql not in contents
+
+    # delete=False means we should try to clean up
+    # we don't really need "try" here as open() would have already failed
+    try:
+        if os.path.exists(checkpoint.name):
+            os.remove(checkpoint.name)
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"An error occurred while attempting to delete the file: {e}")
+
+
 @dbtest
 def test_execute_arg_with_table(executor):
     run(executor, "create table test (a text)")