Question

I wrote a script and I keep getting the following errors. access denied for user ‘zul’@’localhost (using password:yes) when trying to connect

proj: 43: [d: not found

proj: 43: [d: not found

It’s not reading the input d nor is it connecting to MySQL. Any Ideas?

Here is my Script:

#!/bin/bash

tstamp=$(date +$s) 

#Dump or Update
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo -n "What do you want to do? [D]ump or [U]pdate: "
  read parm
else
  parm=$1
fi

#Database Name
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
  echo -n "What database are you using?"
  read dbname
else
  dbname=$2
fi

#Database User
if [ -z "$3" ]; then
  echo -n "What database user are you using?"
  read dbuser
else
  dbuser=$3
fi

#Database Password
if [ -z "$4" ]; then
     echo -n "What password are you using?"
     read dbpass
else
     dbpass=$4
fi


#Checks if the directory exists
if test ! -d "/home/zul/sql/backup"; then
  mkdir /home/zul/sql
  mkdir /home/zul/sql/backup
fi

mysqldump $dbuser -p$dbpass $dbname > /home/zul/sql/backup/$tstamp.$dbname.sql

if [$parm = d ]; then
  mysqldump $dbuser -p$dbpass $dbname > /home/zul/sql/backup/$dbname.sql
elif [$parm = u ]; then
  mysqldump $dbuser -p$dbpass $dbname < /home/zul/sql/backup/$dbname.sql
else
  echo " d or u option only! (lower case)"
fi

Answer 1

I guess there is a space missing in your if-else test:
Should be [ test ] and not [test ]

if [ $parm = d ]; then
  mysqldump $dbuser -p$dbpass $dbname > /home/zul/sql/backup/$dbname.sql
elif [ $parm = u ]; then
  mysqldump $dbuser -p$dbpass $dbname < /home/zul/sql/backup/$dbname.sql
else