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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] loganda]$ echo "set @thing='here we go';select @thing"| mysql -u root -p >outfile Enter password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Database Administrator HP Managed Services 148 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000 Australia +61 8 8408 4273 - Work +61 417 268 665 - Mobile +61 8 8408 4259 - Fax ________________________________ From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 --- rhino1 AT sympatico DOT ca "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." - C.A.R. Hoare
