I thought you'd nailed it when I read your note but I found that your suggestion didn't work.
When I tried executing the script with this added to it: system "echo 'hi there'"; I got this on the command line: sh: line 1: echo 'hi there': command not found I tried doing a man system and got an article from the Linux Programmer's Manual about a C function named system(). It's beginning to look like I don't have the 'system' command on my server. I am not a strong Unix person; should the 'system' command be there? I'm running Linux Mandrake 9.1. Maybe 'system' is only available on some of the Unix platforms but not Mandrake 9.1?? Rhino ----- Original Message ----- From: "Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "mysql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:31 PM Subject: RE: Script question The only way to mix and match with an .sql script would be to use the system command. The example I showed below would echo the text required and that would be diverted to Load.out file eg. -------------- use SFL; system "echo 'my choice of text'"; system "cat /etc/passwd"; system "cat afilethathasmytextinit"; #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'; ---------------- When run as mysql -u myid -pmypass < Load.sql > Load.out All output (including that of the system commands) will be echoed into the Load.out file Otherwise I'm confused as to what you are trying to do. Sorry 8-) 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 -----Original Message----- From: Rhino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2004 9:53 AM To: Logan, David (SST - Adelaide); mysql Subject: Re: Script question Sorry, you still haven't got it;-) I want the echo command to be in the *script*, not to be supplied at the command line. Is there some way to put a mix of MySQL commands and OS commands into a script and have both executed successfully via: mysql -u myid -pmypass < Load.sql > Load.out Rhino ----- Original Message ----- From: "Logan, David (SST - Adelaide)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "mysql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:09 PM Subject: RE: Script question After re-reading your email in not so quite a rush 8-) Further to that, you can use the system command to run an OS command eg. system "echo thing"; mysql> system echo "thing"; thing mysql> 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 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
