How do you run a single query through mysql from the command line?

Question

I\'m looking to be able to run a single query on a remote server in a scripted task.

For example, intuitively, I would imagine it would go something like:

Answer 1

here's how you can do it with a cool shell trick:

mysql -uroot -p -hslavedb.mydomain.com mydb_production <<< 'select * from users'

'<<<' instructs the shell to take whatever follows it as stdin, similar to piping from echo.

use the -t flag to enable table-format output