Easily import a MySQL --tab dump - mysql

Question

I have dumped a MySQL database with the --tab option, which creates 2 files per table (a SQL file with the create table and a tab-separated-values file with the data).
Is there an easy way to import this directory of files back into a MySQL server? I can't find the option in mysqlimport.

Answer 1

for i in `ls *.sql`; do
sql_file=$i;
table_name=`echo $sql_file | sed "s/.sql$//"`
mysql -u root database_name < $sql_file
echo "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '$table_name.txt' INTO TABLE $table_name" | mysql -u root database_name
done

Answer 2

You can do this several ways - the most direct would be
mysql db < sql_structure_file
This creates the tables. Then do (from mysql client)
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE tab_delimited_file INTO TABLE
(with appropriate names, delimiters, etc )

Answer 3

I'm using this bash script which first imports all the sql files to build the tables, then the txt files. The data is loaded using background processes in parallel — basically emulating the multi-thread option in mysqlimport. Usage is like this:
./import_table.sh database_name /path/to/dump/files
SCRIPT:
#!/bin/bash
DIR=$(echo $2 | sed 's/\/$//')
function import_sql() {
mysql $1 < $2;
echo "mysql $1 < '$2'";
}
function import_txt() {
mysqlimport --silent $1 $2;
echo "mysqlimport --silent $1 '$2'";
}
for filename in $DIR/*.sql; do
[ -e "$filename" ] || continue
import_sql $1 $filename &
done
wait
echo 'ALL SQL IMPORTED';
for filename in $DIR/*.txt; do
[ -e "$filename" ] || continue
import_txt $1 $filename &
done
wait
echo 'ALL TXT IMPORTED';