Question

I am trying to output an SQL request into a CSV file but I can’t add two options that will help me to set it up. Here is the part of the request that works well:

mysql --host=localhost --user=root --password=pass --quick -e 'SELECT * FROM DB.TABLE' > '/stupidpath withaspace/stuff/myrep/export.csv' 

I would like to add those two options to this request, but there something with the quote I don’t get:

FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','

and

ENCLOSED BY '"'

How can I integrate this?

Answer 1

Probably the easiest way is to put your exporting SQL in a separate file and then feed that into mysql. The SQL file, exporter.sql, would look like this:

SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/stupidpath withaspace/stuff/myrep/export.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'
FROM DB.TABLE;

And then run it with:

mysql --host=localhost --user=root --password=pass --quick < exporter.sql

Putting the SQL in a separate file avoids the usual escaping and quoting problems of trying to send quotes into something from the shell.