Re: field separator

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Apr 04), John Smith said:
> I've searched manyh places and can't get a good answer .. i hope I can get 
> help here.
> 
> I'm trying to dump all the data in my database to separate files (per table) 
> and be able to specify a field separator character.
> 
> for example, I'd like to use || as my field separator, I did the following:
> 
> >mysqldump -u root -p --tab --fields-enclosed-by='||' --no-create-info  myDB 
> > > output_file.txt
> 
> I get the folowing error:
> mysqldump: Got error: 1: Can't create/write to file 
> '/home/website/--fields-enclosed-by=||/alloc.txt' (Errcode: 2)

--tab takes an argument.

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	Dan Nelson
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