How to use mysqlimport to read in result of mysqldump --databases

Question

I have successfully dumped an entire MySQL database using

mysqldump --databases

generating a nice .txt file. However, I can\'t see how to r

Answer 1

You can just use 'source' from within the mysql client:

source dumpfile.sql

Or supply directly from command line:

mysql -u user -p password database < source dumpfile.sql

This is because the result of mysqldump is just a SQL file that can be run via mysql as usual.