Import Multiple .sql dump files into mysql database from shell

Question

I have a directory with a bunch of .sql files that mysql dumps of each database on my server.

e.g.

database1-2011-01-15.sql
database2-2         


        

Answer 1

One-liner to read in all .sql files and imports them:

for SQL in *.sql; do DB=${SQL/\.sql/}; echo importing $DB; mysql $DB < $SQL; done

The only trick is the bash substring replacement to strip out the .sql to get the database name.