on 6/29/01 10:20 AM, Nelson Goforth at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running MySQL on OS X and have just tried writing to an OUTFILE,
> but I can't get to it.
>
> I guessed it was in the directory /usr/local/var but I couldn't 'cd'
> to that directory (permission denied), even using the command:
>
> sudo cd /usr/local/var
>
> and got some sort of error (other than permission denied) but I
> finally tried 'sudo ls -al /usr/local/var/databasename/' and found
> the file. Difficulty now is how do I get at it?
>
> In a semi-related question, how can I do a "Find" for the Unix files.
> I tried "locate", but with no luck.
1) From MySQL, give the full path of the output file, so it ends up in a
location that is useful.
2) 'man find' describes how to invoke the find command.