Question

I would like to take data (some text) from a file and insert it into a mysql field, using a script.

I have tried: mysql -u root -p password dbname << INSERT INTO tblename (fieldname) VALUES (LOAD_FILE('filename'));

and

mysql -u root -p password dbname << EOF INSERT INTO tblename (fieldname) VALUES ('$filename'); EOF

Answer 1

Not even close for either. You can’t “redirect” a string into mysql.

Try

echo "INSERT INTO tblename (fieldname) VALUES (LOAD_FILE('filename'));" | mysql -u root -p password dbname

instead.

The second version has even less of a chance to work – you’d just be inserting the name of the file into the database, not the file’s contents.