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I would like to be able to control and specify the escape character used by mysqldump for data exports.
Instead of a \ I would like to use a double backslash \\ or ''
Apart from --fields-escaped-by=char which seems to be used for tab delimited exports, I was not able to find any relevant option.
Can anyone please help?
I just ran into this same problem. There is an open bug on this in MySQL’s bug tracker (which is amazing because it’s such a basic thing). My quick fix was to pipe mysqldump through sed: