> ./mysql -uuser -ppassword database <script.sql
might just do that! :-)


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From: "Curtis Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:56 AM
Subject: Executing a \. or source function from an API


> I have a big file full of ANSI SQL and a I want a script to be able to
> tell Mysql to read this ANSI SQL file every few days because it updates
> from a third party in ANSI SQL.  I wish to avoid running a little parser
> that just passes the SQL to the Perl-DBI module query methods, if I
> could just simply tell Mysql to execute the SQL script file on the file
> system.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Curtis
> 
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