On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:12:42PM -0700, John Oliver wrote: > Is there a way to use mysqladmin (or mysql) to truncate a table as a > one-off command from the command line? > > I have an issue with importing data from one database into another, but > the second database might have columns that the first did not. > > On database 1, I use mysqldump to grab certain tables, and when I try to > simply "overlay" those tables onto the new database, I get an error > > ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 24: Duplicate entry '378-4' for key 1 > > So we're thinking we should truncate the table first, but it appears > this must be done manually in the mysql> shell, which won't work... this > operation needs to be scripted, or to be presented as one command line > that can be copy-and-pasted. > > How can I do something like : > > mysqladmin -h db_server -u user -pPASSWORD <DATABASE> truncate table > table1 ?
Just to leave an answer behind for the next character who runs into this... for i in table1 table2 table3 ; do mysql -h db_server -u user -pPASSWORD -e "truncate table $i" DATABASE; done -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
