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I am using Ubuntu-server. Can I setup / configure 'mysql' to auto-connect to another host? I mean if I type mysql on my terminal, it will connect automatically to specific host.
Thanks.
There are two parts for the answer.
First - how to make an alias, a word that if you type it, a specific command will execute (taken from here:
Create ~/.bash_aliases if not exists
touch ~/.bash_aliases
Open ~/.bash_aliases in a editor and append alias MY_COMMAND_ALIAS="THE COMMAND YOU WANT"
or use command echo 'alias MY_COMMAND_ALIAS="THE COMMAND YOU WANT"' >> ~/.bash_aliases
Save it
Use reload source ~/.bash_profile command to reload profile or reopen the terminal
Second part - the command you want to run mysql command, it will be something like:
mysql -u $user -p$passsword -Bse "command1;command2;....;commandn"
You can write a simple wrapper like this:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/mysql --user $MYSQL_USER -p $MYSQL_PASSWORD --host $MYSQL_HOST $*
Where that should work almost identically to the default mysql command with a few tiny exceptions, like how LOAD DATA INFILE will read files only on the server, not your local machine.
You may need to do the same for mysqldump and other related commands like mysqladmin if you use those.
Be sure to specify the actual path to the mysql binary you want to run. I'm using /usr/bin/mysql here but it could be something else.
I have the following batch file:
#ECHO on
cd "C:\Program Files\MariaDB\mariadb\bin"
mysql -u root < "C:\database_setup.sql"
When I run the command directly in the command line, it works fine. When I run this batch file I get that it's trying to execute:
mysql -u root 0<"C:\database_setup.sql"
To solve this, I tried to escape the less than sign with:
mysql -u root ^< "C:\database_setup.sql"
It appears to be correct in the console but it's dumping the mysql options instead of inserting the contents of database_setup.sql.
I'm thinking that this is because the "<" is actually be referred to as a string since I'm escaping it and not as the redirection operator.
How does one accomplish running this command in a batch file (which works fine directly in the console)?
The following workaround could help you:
mysql -u root -e "SOURCE C:\database_setup.sql"
Also the following should work:
type C:\database_setup.sql | mysql -u root
I cant get my mysql to start on os x 10.7. It is located in /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
I get command not found when I type mysql --version in the terminal.
I tried this can't access mysql from command line mac but still get command not found. I tried installing mysql with the dmg and i have tried to install it through homebrew and I cant get it to work. When I try to start mysql with homebrew I get MySQL won't start
This is my $PATH:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/Users/Victoria/bin:/usr/local//usr/local/mysql/bin/private/var/mysql/private/var/mysql/bin
This is the problem with your $PATH:
/usr/local//usr/local/mysql/bin/private/var/mysql/private/var/mysql/bin.
$PATH is where the shell searches for command files. Folders to search in need to be separated with a colon. And so you want /usr/local/mysql/bin/ in your path but instead it searches in /usr/local//usr/local/mysql/bin/private/var/mysql/private/var/mysql/bin, which probably doesn't exist.
Instead you want ${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin.
So do export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin.
If you want this to be run every time you open terminal put it in the file .bash_profile, which is run when Terminal opens.
One alternative way is creating soft link in /usr/local/bin
ln -s /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql /usr/local/bin/mysql
But if you need other executables like mysqldump, you will need to create soft link for them.
I faced the same issue, and finally i got a solution. Please go through with the below steps, if you are using MAMP.
Start MAMP or MAMP PRO
Start the server
Open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities)
Type in: (one line)
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql --host=localhost -uroot -proot
This works for me.
If you installed MySQL Server and you still get
mysql -u root -p command not found
You're most likely experiencing this because you have an older mac version.
Try this:
in the home directory in terminal open -t .bash_profile
paste export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin/ inside and save it
instead of writing mysql -u root -p paste the following in your terminal:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p
Or use Alias instead of writing the full path
alias mysql=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
Enter your password. Now you're in.
You have to set PATH for mysql in your .bashrc file using following:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
But If you are using oh my zsh then you have to add path inside .zshrc file.
Your PATH might not setup. Go to terminal and type:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
Essentially, this allows you to access mysql from anywhere.
Type cat .bash_profile to check the PATH has been setup.
Check mysql version now: mysql --version
If this still doesn't work, close the terminal and reopen. Check the version now, it should work. Good luck!
Use these two commands in your terminal
alias mysql=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
mysql --user=root -p
Then it will ask you to enter password of your user pc
Enter password:
I have tried a lot of the suggestions on SO but this is the one that actually worked for me:
sudo sh -c 'echo /usr/local/mysql/bin > /etc/paths.d/mysql'
then you type
mysql
It will prompt you to enter your password.
Add the following lines in bash_profile:
alias startmysql='sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start'
alias stopmysql='sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop'
and save the bash_profile.
Now, in the terminal start and stop the mysql server using the following commands:
startmysql //to start mysql server
and
stopmysql //to stop mysql server
If you are using terminal you will want to add the following to ./bash_profile
export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
If you are using zsh, you will want to add the above line to your ~/.zshrc
With MAMP
Locate mysql usually at /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql
sudo vi /etc/paths
Add this path to file /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin
:wq (Save and quit file)
Close Terminal windows
Reopen Terminal and type mysql and it should work
I installed MAMP and phpmyadmin was working.
But cannot find /usr/local/bin/mysql
This fixed it
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql /usr/local/bin/mysql
in terminal do:
vi ~/.bash_profile
And add this line:
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin
and the type this in terminal:
mysql -u [username] -p [password]
Maybe I'll help someone else. None of the above answers worked for Catalina. Finally, this solved the problem
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mysql#5.7/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/$(whoami)/.bash_profile
Of course, you have to change for the version of mysql you have installed
May be i will help out some of you that even though if you are unable to open mysql from terminal after trying changing path in .bash_profile
then you always found the error "MYSQL not found"
hence you can use the following command directly it will ask for your password and sql bash is opened
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p
I had same issue after installing mariadb via HomeBrew, brew doctor suggested to run brew link mariadb - which fixed the issue.
It is possible you are using zsh instead of bash then you have to enter the above mentioned commands in .zshenv instead of .bash_profile
I want to execute a text file containing SQL queries, in MySQL.
I tried to run source /Desktop/test.sql and received the error:
mysql> . \home\sivakumar\Desktop\test.sql ERROR: Failed to open file
'\home\sivakumar\Desktop\test.sql', error: 2
Any idea on what I am doing wrong?
If you’re at the MySQL command line mysql> you have to declare the SQL file as source.
mysql> source \home\user\Desktop\test.sql;
You have quite a lot of options:
use the MySQL command line client: mysql -h hostname -u user database < path/to/test.sql
Install the MySQL GUI tools and open your SQL file, then execute it
Use phpmysql if the database is available via your webserver
you can execute mysql statements that have been written in a text file using the following command:
mysql -u yourusername -p yourpassword yourdatabase < text_file
if your database has not been created yet, log into your mysql first using:
mysql -u yourusername -p yourpassword
then:
mysql>CREATE DATABASE a_new_database_name
then:
mysql -u yourusername -p yourpassword a_new_database_name < text_file
that should do it!
More info here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-batch-commands.html
My favorite option to do that will be:
mysql --user="username" --database="databasename" --password="yourpassword" < "filepath"
I use it this way because when you string it with "" you avoiding wrong path and mistakes with spaces and - and probably more problems with chars that I did not encounter with.
With #elcuco comment I suggest using this command with [space] before so it tell bash to ignore saving it in history, this will work out of the box in most bash.
in case it still saving your command in history please view the following solutions:
Execute command without keeping it in history
extra security edit
Just in case you want to be extra safe you can use the following command and enter the password in the command line input:
mysql --user="username" --database="databasename" -p < "filepath"
All the top answers are good. But just in case someone wants to run the query from a text file on a remote server AND save results to a file (instead of showing on console), you can do this:
mysql -u yourusername -p yourpassword yourdatabase < query_file > results_file
Hope this helps someone.
I came here searching for this answer as well, and here is what I found works the best for me: Note I am using Ubuntu 16.x.x
Access mysql using:
mysql -u <your_user> - p
At the mysql prompt, enter:
source file_name.sql
Hope this helps.
Give the path of .sql file as:
source c:/dump/SQL/file_name.sql;
mysql> source C:\Users\admin\Desktop\fn_Split.sql
Do not specify single quotes.
If the above command is not working, copy the file to c: drive and try again.
as shown below,
mysql> source C:\fn_Split.sql
instead of redirection I would do the following
mysql -h <hostname> -u <username> --password=<password> -D <database> -e 'source <path-to-sql-file>'
This will execute the file path-to-sql-file
Never is a good practice to pass the password argument directly from the command line, it is saved in the ~/.bash_history file and can be accessible from other applications.
Use this instead:
mysql -u user --host host --port 9999 database_name < /scripts/script.sql -p
Enter password:
mysql -uusername -ppassword database-name < file.sql
So many ways to do it.
From Workbench: File > Run SQL Script -- then follow prompts
From Windows Command Line:
Option 1: mysql -u usr -p
mysql> source file_path.sql
Option 2: mysql -u usr -p '-e source file_path.sql'
Option 3: mysql -u usr -p < file_path.sql
Option 4: put multiple 'source' statements inside of file_path.sql (I do this to drop and recreate schemas/databases which requires multiple files to be run)
mysql -u usr -p < file_path.sql
If you get errors from the command line, make sure you have previously run
cd {!!>>mysqld.exe home directory here<<!!}
mysqld.exe --initialize
This must be run from within the mysqld.exe directory, hence the CD.
Hope this is helpful and not just redundant.
From linux 14.04 to MySql 5.7, using cat command piped with mysql login:
cat /Desktop/test.sql | sudo mysql -uroot -p
You can use this method for many MySQL commands to execute directly from Shell. Eg:
echo "USE my_db; SHOW tables;" | sudo mysql -uroot -p
Make sure you separate your commands with semicolon (';').
I didn't see this approach in the answers above and thought it is a good contribution.
Very likely, you just need to change the slash/blackslash:
from
\home\sivakumar\Desktop\test.sql
to
/home/sivakumar/Desktop/test.sql
So the command would be:
source /home/sivakumar/Desktop/test.sql
use the following from mysql command prompt-
source \\home\\user\\Desktop\\test.sql;
Use no quotation. Even if the path contains space(' ') use no quotation at all.
Since mysql -u yourusername -p yourpassword yourdatabase < text_file did not work on a remote server (Amazon's EC2)...
Make sure that the Database is created first.
Then:
mysql --host=localhost --user=your_username --password=your_password your_database_name < pathTofilename.sql
For future reference, I've found this to work vs the aforementioned methods, under Windows in your msql console:
mysql>>source c://path_to_file//path_to_file//file_name.sql;
If your root drive isn't called "c" then just interchange with what your drive is called. First try backslashes, if they dont work, try the forward slash. If they also don't work, ensure you have your full file path, the .sql extension on the file name, and if your version insists on semi-colons, ensure it's there and try again.
If you are here LOOKING FOR A DRUPAL ENVIRONMENT
You can run with drush command on your project directory
drush sqlc
If you are trying this command :
mysql -u root -proot -D database < /path/to/script.sql
You may get an error like this : if you have special characters, mainly '`'
ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '/path/to/script.sql' at line 1
So I would suggest to use a command like this :
echo "source /path/to/script.sql" | mysql -u root -proot -D database
This command will execute source /path/to/script.sql once connected to the server, which execute your script.
I had this error, and tried all the advice i could get to no avail.
Finally, the problem was that my folder had a space in the folder name which appearing as a forward-slash in the folder path, once i found and removed it, it worked fine.
I use Bash's Here Strings for an instant SQL execution:
mysql -uroot -p <<<"select date(now())"
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirections.html#Here-Strings
I have a large (~150mb) sql file that I am trying to import. It is too large to do it through PHPMyAdmin even splitting it into many pieces and it is too large to import through a php script as it times out after 30 seconds of processing the script. So I'm looking for how to directly import the file from MySQL command line.
Searching online shows that I want to either use database_name < file_name.sql or source file_name.sql but I can't get either of these to work.
Using < gives the generic MySQL syntax error while using source give a slightly more promising failed to open file 'file_name.sql', error: 2 so I am inclined to think that the source command is on the right track.
I am in windows and am using xampp as a localhost server (note I'm only trying to import this file on the localhost so that I can execute the sql). I've tried placing the file in xampp\mysql\bin and xampp\mysql\data\database_name.
Any suggestions of how to import this .sql file into MySQL either from the MySQL command line or by any other means would be greatly appreciated.
On Windows this should work (note the forward slash and that the whole path is not quoted and that spaces are allowed)
USE yourdb;
SOURCE D:/My Folder with spaces/Folder/filetoimport.sql;
With xampp I think you need to use the full path at the command line, something like this, perhaps:
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql -u {username} -p {databasename} < file_name.sql
Don't use "source", it's designed to run a small number of sql queries and display the output, not to import large databases.
I use Wamp Developer (not XAMPP) but it should be the same.
What you want to do is use the MySQL Client to do the work for you.
Make sure MySQL is running.
Create your database via phpMyAdmin or the MySQL shell.
Then, run cmd.exe, and change to the directory your sql file is
located in.
Execute: mysql -u root -p database_name_here < dump_file_name_here.sql
Substitute in your database name and dump file name.
Enter your MySQL root account password when prompted (if no password set, remove the "-p" switch).
This assumes that mysql.exe can be located via the environmental path, and that sql file is located in the directory you are running this from. Otherwise, use full paths.
Option 1. you can do this using single cmd where D is my xampp or wampp install folder so i use this where mysql.exe install and second option database name and last is sql file so replace it as your then run this
You can try this:
mysql -u root -p test < /test.sql
Another option
D:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql.exe -u root -p databse_name < D:\yoursqlfile.sql
Option 1 for wampp
D:\wamp64\bin\mysql\mysql5.7.14\bin\mysql.exe -u root -p databse_name< D:\yoursqlfile.sql
change your folder and mysql version
Option 2 Suppose your current path is which is showing command prompt
C:\Users\shafiq;
then change directory using cd..
then goto your mysql directory where your xampp installed. Then cd.. for change directory. then go to bin folder.
C:\xampp\mysql\bin;
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql -u {username} -p {database password}.then please enter when you see enter password in command prompt.
choose database using
mysql->use test (where database name test)
then put in source sql in bin folder.
then last command will be
mysql-> source test.sql (where test.sql is file name which need to import)
then press enter
This is full command
C:\Users\shafiq;
C:\xampp\mysql\bin
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql -u {username} -p {database password}
mysql-> use test
mysql->source test.sql
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql -u root -p testdatabase < C:\Users\Juan\Desktop\databasebackup.sql
That worked for me to import 400MB file into my database.
For importing a large SQL file using the command line in MySQL.
First go to file path at the command line.
Then,
Option 1:
mysql -u {user_name} -p{password} {database_name} < your_file.sql
It's give a warning mesaage : Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
Done.Your file will be imported.
Option 2:
mysql -u {user_name} -p {database_name} < your_file.sql
in this you are not provide sql password then they asked for password just enter password and your file will be imported.
use mysql source command to avoid redirection failures, especially on windows.
mysql [-u <username>] [-p<password>] <databasename> -e "source /path/to/dump.sql"
where e for "Execute command"
On Windows, please remember to use double quote for sql command.
However, either backslash \ or slash / will work on Windows.
Hello I had the same problem but I tried many different states and I came to it:
SOURCE doesn't work with ; at the end in my case:
SOURCE D:\Barname-Narmafzar\computer programming's languages\SQL\MySQL\dataAug-12-2019\dataAug-12-2019.sql;
and the error was:
ERROR: Unknown command '\B'.
'>
it also didn't work with a quotation for the address.
But it works without ; at the end:
SOURCE D:\Barname-Narmafzar\computer programming's languages\SQL\MySQL\dataAug-12-2019\dataAug-12-2019.sql
But remember to use USE database_name; before that.
I think it's so because the SOURCE or USE or HELP are for the Mysql itself and they are not such query codes although when you write HELP it says:
"Note that all text commands must be first on line and end with ; ".
but here doesn't work.
I should say that I have done it in CMD and I didn't try it in Mysql Workbench.
That was it
This is the result
On my Xampp set-up I was able to use the following to import a database into MySQL:
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql -u {username goes here} -p {leave password blank} {database name} < /path/to/file.sql [enter]
My personal experience on my local machine was as follows:
Username: Root
Database Name: testdatabase
SQL File Location: databasebackup.sql is located on my desktop
C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql -u root -p testdatabase < C:\Users\Juan\Desktop\databasebackup.sql
That worked for me to import my 1GB+ file into my database.
Username as root without password
mysql -h localhost -u root databasename < dump.sql
I have faced the problem on my local host as i don't have any password for root user. You can use it without -p password as above. If it ask for password, just hit enter.
On windows:
Use explorer to navigate to the folder with the .sql file.
Type cmd in the top address bar. Cmd will open.
Type:
"C:\path\to\mysql.exe" -u "your_username" -p "your password" < "name_of_your_sql_file.sql"
Wait a bit and the sql file will have been executed on your database.
Confirmed to work with MariaDB in feb 2018.