I added the line "set feedback off" at the beginning of my Oracle report script and 
that suppressed the output of the garbage lines.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:33 AM
To: Richard Bolen; MySQL Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: LOAD DATA INFILE and how to ignore garbage lines at end
ofload file?


At 10:58 -0500 3/4/02, Richard Bolen wrote:
>I'm exporting data from Oracle and importing it into MySQL.  The 
>problem is Oracle puts garbage lines at the end of it's output files.

As you've noted, the problem is Oracle.

If you're using Unix, you could use tail to see how many of these lines
there are and wc to count the total number of lines in the file.  With
that information, you can construct the proper value of n and use head -n
to get only the initial part of the file that contains the non-garbage lines.

Or you could reverse the order of the lines in the file (expensive?) and
then use IGNORE n LINES in your LOAD DATA statement to ignore the first n
lines.

Better if you can get Oracle just to suppress these lines in the first
place.  Perhaps someone else will have a suggestion how to do that.

>   Lines like "300 rows selected" and "input truncated to 9 chars" as 
>well as empty lines.  When MySQL loads these files, I'm getting rows 
>inserted for the empty lines at the end of these files. 
>
>Can I get MySQL to ignore empty lines at the end of these files?  or 
>if anyone has Oracle experience can I get it to suppress the output 
>of these line?
>
>Thanks,
>Rich
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