How do I insert a special character such as ' into MySQL?

Question

I am executing the insert query from a shell script which reads data from multiple files. Some of the data to be inserted contains \' in the text a

Answer 1

You will have to escape the input strings before passing them to MySql.

The list of escape characters is:

Character   Escape Sequence
\0  An ASCII NUL (0x00) character.
\'  A single quote (“'”) character.
\"  A double quote (“"”) character.
\b  A backspace character.
\n  A newline (linefeed) character.
\r  A carriage return character.
\t  A tab character.
\Z  ASCII 26 (Control-Z). See note following the table.
\\  A backslash (“\”) character.
\%  A “%” character. See note following the table.
\_  A “_” character. See note following the table.