How can I correct MySQL Load Error

Question

I\'m not quite sure a similar question to this was closed by I\'m trying to execute the following MySQL program.

mysql -e \"load data local infile \\
\'/tmp         


        

Answer 1

As documented under Security Issues with LOAD DATA LOCAL:

To deal with these problems, we changed how LOAD DATA LOCAL is handled as of MySQL 3.23.49 and MySQL 4.0.2 (4.0.13 on Windows):

• By default, all MySQL clients and libraries in binary distributions are compiled with the --enable-local-infile option, to be compatible with MySQL 3.23.48 and before.

• If you build MySQL from source but do not invoke configure with the --enable-local-infile option, LOAD DATA LOCAL cannot be used by any client unless it is written explicitly to invoke mysql_options(... MYSQL_OPT_LOCAL_INFILE, 0). See Section 20.6.6.49, “mysql_options()”.

• You can disable all LOAD DATA LOCAL statements from the server side by starting mysqld with the --local-infile=0 option.

• For the mysql command-line client, enable LOAD DATA LOCAL by specifying the --local-infile[=1] option, or disable it with the --local-infile=0 option. For mysqlimport, local data file loading is off by default; enable it with the --local or -L option. In any case, successful use of a local load operation requires that the server permits it.

• If you use LOAD DATA LOCAL in Perl scripts or other programs that read the [client] group from option files, you can add the local-infile=1 option to that group. However, to keep this from causing problems for programs that do not understand local-infile, specify it using the loose- prefix:

  [client]
  loose-local-infile=1
  

• If LOAD DATA LOCAL is disabled, either in the server or the client, a client that attempts to issue such a statement receives the following error message:

  ERROR 1148: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version