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mysql: Execute SQL statements in a script file (batch file).

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$ mysql -e "source ${filename-sql}" ${database_name}

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This command is used to interactively execute a single SQL query or a set of SQL queries stored in a file using the MySQL command-line client.

Here is a breakdown of the command:

mysql: This is the command to run the MySQL command-line client.
-e "source ${filename-sql}": The -e option allows you to specify a single query or a set of queries to execute. In this case, the query is source ${filename-sql}. The source command is used to execute SQL statements stored in a file. ${filename-sql} is a placeholder for the name of the SQL file you want to execute.
${database_name}: This is the name of the MySQL database you want to connect to. It specifies the database in which the queries will be executed.

To use this command, you need to replace ${filename-sql} with the actual name of the SQL file you want to execute, and ${database_name} with the name of your MySQL database. For example, if you have an SQL file named data.sql and want to execute the queries in a database named mydatabase, the command would look like this:

mysql -e "source data.sql" mydatabase

Executing this command will connect to the specified database and execute the SQL queries from the data.sql file. The results or any error messages will be printed on the terminal.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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