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

I created a script some time ago to do precisely this, which I called (completely uncreatively) "myload". It loads SQL files into MySQL.

Here it is on GitHub

It's simple and straight-forward; allows you to specify mysql connection parameters, and will decompress gzip'ed sql files on-the-fly. It assumes you have a file per database, and the base of the filename is the desired database name.

So:

myload foo.sql bar.sql.gz

Will create (if not exist) databases called "foo" and "bar", and import the sql file into each.

For the other side of the process, I wrote this script (mydumpall) which creates the corresponding sql (or sql.gz) files for each database (or some subset specified either by name or regex).