Bash script to insert values in MySQL

Question

I want to make a bash script that connects to my MySQL server and inserts some valuse from a txt file. I have written this down:

#!/bin/bash
echo \"INSERT I         


        

Answer 1

Assuming you have many rows to add, you probably need LOAD DATA INFILE statement, not INSERT. The source file has to be on the server, but it seems to be the case here.

Something like that:

#!/bin/bash

mysql -uroot -ptest test << EOF

LOAD DATA INFILE 'test.txt'
    INTO TABLE tbl_name
    FIELDS TERMINATED BY ' ';

EOF

LOAD DATA INFILE has many options as you will discover by reading the doc.