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

You are trying to insert the value "cat test.txt" as a String in the database in an INSERT statement that requires 3 parameters (IP,MAC and SERVER) so this is why you get this error message.

You need to read the text file first and extract the IP, MAC and Server values and then use these in the query that would look like this once filled :

#!/bin/bash
echo "INSERT INTO test (IP,MAC,SERVER) VALUES ('10.16.54.29', '00:f8:e5:33:22:3f', 'marsara');" | mysql -uroot -ptest test;