Re: > mysql < what does the < and > mean?

[Paul DuBois]

At 11:57 AM -0500 11/1/01, Barbara Ferrell wrote:
>i am typing a command C:\apache\mysql\bin> mysql<  =
>C:\apache\mysql\scripts\temp.sql...  which worked by the way thanks to =
>Andrew Murphy's help.  but i wondered what it meant?  i have looked in =
>the books..

>

is part of the DOS prompt.

< filename

signifies input redirection, that is, that you want the mysql
command to read as input the contents of the named file, rather
than reading what you type in interactively.