Change output format for MySQL command line results to CSV

Question

I want to get headerless CSV data from the output of a query to MySQL on the command line. I\'m running this query on a different machine from the MySQL server, so all those

Answer 1

mysqldump utility can help you, basically with --tab option it's a wrapped for SELECT INTO OUTFILE statement.

Example:

mysqldump -u root -p --tab=/tmp world Country --fields-enclosed-by='"' --fields-terminated-by="," --lines-terminated-by="\n" --no-create-info

This will create csv formatted file /tmp/Country.txt