Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:09 PM, O. O. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> (That sed pattern is pretty horrifying and fragile, though.  I'd
> recommend something more like: sed -i 's/^) TYPE=InnoDB;$/)
> TYPE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=binary;/' )

> 
> The shell is only handing the mysql command a file descriptor.  mysql
> will read the file itself directly, the shell won't touch any of the
> input.
> 

Thanks Aryeh for this clarification. I was really feeling that shell was 
doing something – because I trusted the Wikipedia SQL dump. Thanks also 
for your sed command – it is more general i.e. works for other files 
where the line to be modified is not on line number 18.
O.O.


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