Hi Rhino,
This works, however I can't remember how to suppress the column heading.
If you can do that, you can put anything you like in.
[loganda@aaudbasa01 loganda]$ echo "set @thing='here we go';select
@thing"| mysql -u root -p >outfile
Enter password:
[loganda@aaudbasa01 loganda]$ cat outfile
@thing
here we go
If you can work out how to suppress the column header please let me know
Regards
David Logan
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From: Rhino [mailto:rhino1@stripped]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2004 9:13 AM
To: mysql
Subject: Script question
Can anyone tell me how to make a script containing MySQL commands also
execute an OS command?
For instance, given this script, called Load.sql:
--------------
use SFL;
#Load the data from the export file that was exported from Q&A as a
standard
#ASCII file.
load data infile '/home/rhino/MySQL/SFL/FILMS.AS3'
replace into table Dougs_Movies
fields terminated by ';'
optionally enclosed by '"'
escaped by '\\'
lines starting by '"'
terminated by '\r\n';
----------------
I'd like to add some 'echo' statements to the script. However, when I
include:
echo "Hello"
or
!echo "Hello"
I get a syntax error when I execute the script.
I am executing the script from the Linux command line via this command:
mysql -u myid -pmypass < Load.sql > Load.out
It isn't strictly necessary to include 'echo' commands in the script as
long as I can ensure that the text of my choice appears in the Load.out
file in the place of my choosing, i.e. after the 'use' command has been
executed but before the 'load' command has been executed.
Can anyone help me this problem? I can't believe it is hard but I can't
think what to search on in the archives.....
Rhino
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