From: Dan Nelson
Date: July 29 2003 8:37pm
Subject: Re: batch mode
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In the last episode (Jul 29), Peter L. Berghold said:
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:19, azamka wrote:
> > 
> > [root@localhost usr]# mysql security < select *  from machine;
> > -bash: select: No such file or directory
> > 
> 
> 
> EEK! What you told the shell to do was open a file called "select" and
> redirect it to mysql. 
> 
> What you meant to do was "echo 'select * from machine' | mysql security"

or better yet, 

mysql -e "select * from machine" security

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	Dan Nelson
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