Exporting a MySQL table into a CSV file

Question

I have a MySQL table which has to be taken out as a CSV file. The query I used is

SELECT \"ID\",\"NAME\",\"SALARY\",\"SAL1\",\"SAL2\",\"SAL3\",\"SAL4\",\"SAL         


        

Answer 1

This command almost gives you what you want, and it even works with a remote server. The only caveat is that it generates a TSV file (fields are separated by a tab).

mysql mydb -e "select * from mytable" -B > mytable.tsv 

But you could convert it to CSV using sed, as suggested in this answer:

mysql mydb -e "select * from mytable" -B | sed "s/'/\'/;s/\t/\",\"/g;s/^/\"/;s/$/\"/;s/\n//g" > mytable.csv