Paul DuBois wrote:
At 10:14 AM -0400 4/13/07, Amer Neely wrote:
I'm using MySQL 5.0.21 and am trying to find out if it is possible to
overwrite an existing file when using a 'SELECT ... INTO' command from
the command line. Is there another parameter that can do this? I've
looked through the online reference manual, but found no specific help
there.
You cannot. This is a security feature. Otherwise, you might be able
to select into such files as /etc/password or /etc/shells.
From the manual:
The SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE 'file_name' form of SELECT writes the
selected rows to a file. The file is created on the server host, so you
must have the FILE privilege to use this syntax. file_name cannot be an
existing file, which among other things prevents files such as
/etc/passwd and database tables from being destroyed.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html
Thank you. Makes sense once you think about it. That settles it then.
Perl script it is.
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