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Asked: May 10, 20262026-05-10T20:32:23+00:00 2026-05-10T20:32:23+00:00

In MySql’s interpreter, it’s very easy to dump a table to the screen along

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In MySql’s interpreter, it’s very easy to dump a table to the screen along with its field names.

There seems to be no simple way to export a table to a tab-delimted or CSV outfile including its column headers.

I’m trying to do this using only SQL or the Linux command line, without writing a program in another language.

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  1. 2026-05-10T20:32:24+00:00Added an answer on May 10, 2026 at 8:32 pm

    Piping the query to the commandline client outputs a tab separated list with the column names as the first line

    $ echo 'select * from surveys limit 5' | mysql -uroot -pGandalf surveys phone   param1  param2  param3  param4  p0      p1      p2      p3      audio4  code    time XXXXXXXXX       2008-07-02      11:17:23        XXXXXXXX        SAT     -       -       -       -       -       ERROR   2008-07-02 12:18:32 XXXXXXXXX       2008-07-02      11:22:52        XXXXXXXX        SAT     -       -       -       -       -       COLGADO 2008-07-02 12:04:29 XXXXXXXXX       2008-07-02      11:41:29        XXXXXXXX        SAT     -       -       -       -       -       COLGADO 2008-07-02 12:07:22 XXXXXXXXX       2008-07-02      12:16:19        XXXXXXXX        SAT     1       1       1       9       XXXXXXXXX_4.wav     OK      2008-07-02 16:14:27 XXXXXXXXX       2008-07-02      08:21:25        XXXXXXXX        SAT     1       1       1       1       XXXXXXXXX_4.wav     OK      2008-07-02 12:29:40 
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