I have a scenario. I need to connect to a windows server from a unix machine using sshpass and execute a MySQL query remotely. Below is the code I want to run:
sshpass -p 'passwd' ssh -q -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no Administrator#IP mysql -uroot db_name -P 3306 -e "select date(lastupdate),circlecode,count(*) from some_table where date(lastupdate)='2017-05-17' group by 1;"
If I separate the two commands i.e. login and MySQL query it runs fine
sshpass -p 'passwd' ssh -q -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no Administrator#IP
mysql -uroot db_name -P 3306 -e "select date(lastupdate),circlecode,count(*) from some_table where date(lastupdate)='2017-05-17' group by 1;"
I have tried multiple solutions for similar cases I found on net but none works.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
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I have the unfortunate situation, that I don't have the permission to access the MYSQL database from outside the server. But SSH is possible. Therefore I try to run a simple SQL statement from a bash file, that creates a SSH connection, connects to the MYSQL DB and run the SQL statement.
The syntax is pretty straight forward but I'm not able to use them combined in one bash file, but on the command line each individual is working
that the snippets I'm using:
1) establish the SSH connection:
$:sshpass -p my_password ssh my_user#my_server
2) connect to the MYSQL DB:
my_server>mysql -h rdbms -u db_user -D db_name -p db_password
3) run the SQL statement
mysql>SELECT * FROM table
... as said. all good when running on command line.
But when I combine them into a bash file:
#!/usr/bin/
sshpass -p my_password ssh my_user#my_server
mysql -h rdbms -u db_user -D db_name -p db_password
SELECT * FROM table
It stops right after the first line (establishing the SSH connection). Any ideas how I can combine these?
To run a command on a remote server via ssh, you need to list the command as arguments on the same command-line.
For example:
sshpass -p my_password ssh my_user#my_server date
That will run date on the remote server, and return the output of that command.
You can run the mysql client this way too. Just put the mysql command on the same command-line, as arguments to your ssh.
sshpass -p my_password ssh my_user#my_server mysql ...arguments...
You can use \ at the end of a line to continue a long command on the following line. It works as if you had written the full command on one very long line, but it's easier to post in Stack Overflow so readers don't have to scroll horizontally to read it. :-)
Also note that the remote command must be in quotes so it appears like a single argument to ssh. When it runs on the remote server, it will be expanded to multiple arguments.
sshpass -p my_password ssh my_user#my_server \
"mysql ...arguments..."
The mysql client has an option -e that you can use to execute an SQL statement.
sshpass -p my_password ssh my_user#my_server \
"mysql -h rdbms -u db_user -D db_name -pdb_password -e 'SELECT * FROM table'"
A couple of tips about the password:
There must be no space between -p and the password. If you use -p with a space after it, you will be prompted for the password interactively. The word following the space is not taken as the password unless you stick it against the -p.
I don't like to put passwords in plaintext on the command-line. It's not safe to do that, because anyone who can access your shell history can view the password. It's better to use an option file or a login file. But you'll have to put these on the remote server where the mysql client runs.
The code below extracts views separately from the database. However, I'm trying to get this to run in a single docker run or exec command.
Right now when I try, the pipe command and in combination with trying to escape quotes gives me errors.
mysql -u username INFORMATION_SCHEMA
--skip-column-names --batch
-e "select table_name from tables where table_type = 'VIEW'
and table_schema = 'database'"
| xargs mysqldump -u username database
> views.sql
Anyone know how to achieve this within one docker command?
For example:
docker exec -i $(docker-compose ps -q mysqldb) mysql ...
Much love.
You can run both the mysql client command and the mysqldump tool from somewhere that's not "on the database server". In your case, you can run them from the host that has the MySQL server, assuming you launched the database with options like docker run -p 3306:3306. It would look something like
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u username INFORMATION_SCHEMA \
--skip-column-names --batch \
-e "select table_name from tables where table_type = 'VIEW' and table_schema = 'database'" \
| xargs mysqldump -h 127.0.0.1 -u username database \
> views.sql
This avoids all of the shell quoting problems trying to feed this into docker exec, and also avoids the requirement to need root-level access on the host to do an administrative task (if you can run any Docker command at all then you can use docker run to add yourself to the host's /etc/sudoers, among other things).
I also agree with #MichaelBoesl's answer, though: this is long enough that trying to make it into a one-liner isn't really worth the trouble that the various quoting and escaping will bring. I'd probably write this into a script and put the SQL query into a file.
#!/bin/sh
: ${MYSQL_HOST:=127.0.0.1}
: ${MYSQL_USER:=username}
: ${MYSQL_DATABASE:=INFORMATION_SCHEMA}
cat >/tmp/dump_views.sql <<SQL
SELECT table_name
FROM tables
WHERE table_type='VIEW' AND table_schema='database';
SQL
mysql -h "$MYSQL_HOST" -u "$MYSQL_USER" --skip-column-names --batch \
"$MYSQL_DATABASE" </tmp/dump_views.sql \
| xargs mysqldump -h "$MYSQL_HOST" -u "$MYSQL_USER" "$MYSQL_DATABASE"
You can put all your commands into a bash script on the container and just execute the script!
Is it possible to execute queries on dos promp for a remote database?
I assume by "dos prompt" you mean from the MySQL command line tool. Yes, it's possible. Here is an example call:
mysql -u[user] -p[password] -h [hostname] -D [database] -e "select * from my_table"
or if you want to just execute a script file, you would do something like this:
mysql -u -p -h remote.host database < yourfile.sql
You need to have mysql installed locally on your windows machine from which you can run something like:
/path/to/mysql -h hostname -u username -p password -D database -ss -e "select stuff from thing;"
To install mysql on your windows machine you can take a look at this related question:
MySQL command line client for Windows
So I want to pipe my netstat output into a mysql database
The plan is to make it a continuous crontab event. That way I can store that data and use it elsewhere easily.
I figured before I could figure that part out though I needed to figure out how to run a SQL Command from terminal.
It seems pretty straight forward
sudo mysql -u username -pMYPassword -e "SQL COMMAND"
This however doesn't work...
When I run this it prints the MYSQL Help
When I run this though
sudo mysql -u username -p -e "SQL COMMAND"
everything works perfect, it just prompts me for a password
Now I don't know if it makes a difference or not but my DB password does have exclamation points in it. It is also over 15 chars long
Could either of these be an issue?
mysql -u user -p -e 'SQL Query' database
Where,
-u : Specify mysql database user name
-p : Prompt for password
-e : Execute sql query
database : Specify database name
So the option -p is a PROMPT, the password need not to be linked, but to be separated from it:
sudo mysql -u username -p'PassWord' -e 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM my_table'
EDIT: If your real password contains special characters, you need to escape them.
Maybe try : sudo mysql -u username -p'MYPassword' -e "SQL COMMAND"
Or : sudo mysql -u username --password=MyPassword -e "SQL COMMAND"
I am trying to run MySQL query on remote machine with this command:
ssh user#192.168.2.26 "mysql -uroot -proot -e \"use test";""
I am not able to use that database.
Please suggest a working command.
Try this:
mysql -h host -u root -proot -e "show databases;";
Try this:
ssh root#host "mysql database -e 'query to run on table_name; more queries to run;'"
Same can be done with user#host if that user has permission to execute SQL queries let alone launch mysql in general. Using -e is the same as --execute, which will run whatever you put within the trailing quotes (single or double) and quit. The standard output format would be the same as you would see using --batch.
MySql seems to have a special command line syntax which includes the database.
mysql -u user -p -e 'SQL Query' database
This documentation is rather old but I got it to work
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/run-sql-query-directly-on-the-command-line/
Final working command with ssh:
ssh user#host "mysql -u user -e 'show tables;' databasename"
This ended up working for me in a bash script:
query='USE [database]; SELECT ...'
mysql='mysql -u [username] -p[password] -e '"'""$query""'"
ssh [username]#[server] -t "$mysql"
If you want to make it more safe then add a prompt for the password instead of storing it somewhere potentially unsafe.
This worked for me after a few tests (basically same answer as #King-Wzrd):
ssh -t kom "mysql -uroot -p -e 'show databases;'"
ssh -t kom "mysql -uroot -p < /home/ling/websites/jin_test/.deploy/tmp.sql"
The "trick" was the quotes around the command.
The -t option allows for prompting password interactively via the remote shell.
The kom here is just a ssh config identifier defined in my ~/.ssh/config file (see more here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/create-ssh-config-file-on-linux-unix/).
Running this from my Host environment against MySQL within my Homestead VM produced a nice result... although I did have to set the root password from within the VM first in order for it to work.
ssh vagrant#192.168.10.10 mysql -h localhost -u root -p -e "'SELECT * FROM user;' mysql";