On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:16 PM, René Fournier <m...@renefournier.com> wrote:

> OK, I've managed to do the same thing with just the mysql command line
> program:
>
>        mysql -h 192.168.0.224 -u root -p alba2 <
> /Backup/Latest/alba2_2009-03-10_00h45m.Tuesday.sql
>
> Works great. However, the sql file is normally gzipped, so.... Can I ungzip
> the file on the fly (and without removing the .gzip version) and pipe the
> contents as I did above? (Yes, I'm UNIX-impaired.)  Something like:
>
>        mysql -h 192.168.0.224 -u root -p alba2 < gzip -dc
> /Backup/Latest/alba2_2009-03-10_00h45m.Tuesday.sql.gz
>
> But so that it works...
>
> ...Rene


Pipe is your friend. You probably want something like:

gzip -dc /Backup/Latest/alba2_2009-03-10_00h45m.Tuesday.sql.gz
| mysql -h 192.168.0.224 -u root -p alba2

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