Julian
At 02:46 PM 11/21/2003 -0600, Paul DuBois wrote:
At 10:56 -0500 11/21/03, Julian Zottl wrote:Andy,
Thanks for responding. I think that I am going to go with the idea of creating a tale for each day. My thoughts were to write a shell script to do this for me, but I am running into a problem: I wrote the following:
#!/bin/sh
date=`date "+%m%d%Y"`
export date
mysql -u root -p < createdb.sql
Then in createdb.sql CONNECT Blah; CREATE TABLE $date ( ..... ) TYPE=MyISAM;
But it's not passing the $date variable to SQL :/ I've been looking on the web for a way to do this, but have yet to find it. any ideas?
You could use a here-document instead of createdb.sql
#!/bin/sh date=`date "+%m%d%Y"`
mysql -u root -p <<EOF CONNECT Blah; CREATE TABLE t$date ( ...... ) TYPE=MyISAM; EOF
I put a "t" before $date -- you don't want to try creating a table with a name that's all digits. That makes it indistinguishable from a number, so you'd have to quote it with backticks every time you refer to it.
Julian
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