> "batch mode" doesn't necessarily mean "raw mode". You want to ask for
> "raw mode", but ask for "batch mode".
Luckily this led me to look up the letter "r" in command line options
and I happened to find the "-r" option. Which is exactly what I need.
My question was so clear. I have to wonder why 3 prior responses did not
even hint at the solution.
Your first response sought to justify why mySQL was giving me the
unwanted result. Then you suggested converting mySQL's result with
another tool.
But I simply need "-r".
Actually the manual, for "-r", says only: "Write column values without
escape conversion. Used with --batch." What does this mean exactly? Is
it only that newlines in output data will not be converted to "\n"? I
don't see "escape conversion" documented.
> But doing it this way would render the output completely useless for
> all uses, except for your special case.
I really have no idea what you mean here. Without -r, mySQL converts
newlines in output data to the 2 characters slash, n ("\n"). Why would
output be "completely useless" if it didn't do this??
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