Question

Hopefully this is just quick fix, but when I execute any select query, such as,

SELECT table_name 
FROM table_info 
WHERE load_order IS NOT NULL 
ORDER BY load_order;

it always prepends the column name to the result. In this case, the result is,

table_name settings tax tax_rate sales_tax_zone sic 
naics exempt_reason wh pack pcat route supply_point 
point credit_status fuel_type participant site salesman 
driver truck profit terms vendor product pump customer 
card card_fuel_type tax_certificate prodware prodware_price

Here is a snippet from the bash script:

TABLES=` (
  echo -n "select table_name from table_info "
  echo -n "where load_order is not null "
  echo "order by load_order;" 
) | mysql -uuser -ppassword database`

Parsing it via:

for TABLE in ${TABLES}
do
if [ $TABLE != 'table_name' ]
    do_table #Start the load process
fi
done

The problem is the script is quite large (~2000) lines and there are many select queries. Is there an option I can pass to mysql that will exclude the column name?

Found the solution: I needed to use the –skip-column-names option when invoking mysql. Thanks for all the answers.

Answer 1

Sounds like that’s the column name coming back in your result set.

To deal with this from your shell script, try modifying the code that’s handling the results. Somehow skip the first result, as it’s the name of the column.

Pseudocode:

for each result in myResultSet
    if result != myResultSet[0]
    begin
        //include this result.
    end
next