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

You would use a while read loop to process the output of that command.

echo "SELECT id, name FROM type ORDER BY sort" | mysql test | while read -r line
do
    # you could use an if statement to skip the header line
    do_something "$line"
done

or store it in an array:

while read -r line
do
    array+=("$line")
done < <(echo "SELECT id, name FROM type ORDER BY sort" | mysql test)

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