Hello,

I'm a bit confused about where the database is located in Mac OS X. I was following the instructions in O'Reilly's boot using and Managing MySQL ad got to the point where I tried to do a select and output to a file. The command I ran was as follows:

SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'books.dat'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
FROM BOOK;

The book states that a test.dat file will exist n my drive at /usr/local/var/test/test.dat , yet no such file can be found. I don't even have that directory. My directory structure goes as far as /usr/local/ - then there is mysql-2.23.55 and an alias (mysql) that points to that directory. Inside mysql-2.23.55, i have a tests directory and a data directory which i cannot get into at the moment. So is the book wrong, or is it different for OS X now.

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks,
Bernardo Zuniga


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