Processing MySQL result in bash

Question

I\'m currently having a already a bash script with a few thousand lines which sends various queries MySQL to generate applicable output for munin.

Up until now the resul

Answer 1

My example is not Bash, but I'd like to point out my parameters at invoking the mysql command, they surpress the boxing and the headers.

#!/bin/sh

mysql dbname -B -N -s -e "SELECT * FROM tbl" | while read -r line
do
  echo "$line" | cut -f1   # outputs col #1
  echo "$line" | cut -f2   # outputs col #2
  echo "$line" | cut -f3   # outputs col #3
done