On Thursday 08 July 2004 09:19, Louie Miranda might have typed: > > As you can see, it updates the whole "random" field on the table. What > i would like to do is, update each and everyone of it. using a random > program, which i have. Its on my first email. >
> > ### > > #!/bin/sh -x > > for random in `pwgen --no-capitalize -N1` > > do > > sleep 0 > > done > > > > echo $random > > > > for update in $random > > do > > echo "update dump set random= '$random' limit 1"|mysql -uroot insert Logic error. You need to specify which row to update. Start with ROW=0 for random in `pwgen` do let ROW=$ROW+1 echo "update dump set random= '$random' WHERE countid=$ROW"|mysql -uroot insert done Untested, but a quick check of how to do math in shell will help. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
