At 11:13 +1000 1/17/02, Mr Aaron Brandis wrote: >Hi everyone > >This is the first time I have posted to this list and I was wondering if >someone could answer my question. I know you can run commands from a >shell prompt (such as unix...) like: > >shell> mysql -e 'SELECT * FROM table' database > >for a simple select query and > >shell> mysqlimport --local database table.txt > >to import information from a text file. > >I was just wondering how (and even if you can) set up a pager and write >to a file from the shell. I can do it from the mysql command prompt >like this: > >mysql> pager cat /home/aaron/tube.txt; >mysql> select Run from tubes; > >This will put the result of the query into tubes.txt So does anyone >know if i can do this from the shell prompt??
Writing to a file and paging the output are normally mutually exclusive activities. Why do you want to do this? If you just want to save the output in a file, you don't need to use a pager. Just do this: mysql -e 'select Run from tubes' database > /home/aaron/tube.txt And if you want the usual boxed-table output (rather than tab-delimited, which is what you normally get when redirecting the output to a file), do this instead: mysql -t -e 'select Run from tubes' database > /home/aaron/tube.txt > >Thanks alot for your help > >Aaron --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
