Check if mysql database exists, perform action based on result

Question

Is it possible from within a bash script to check if a mysql database exists. Depending on the result then perform another action or terminate the script?

Answer 1

Here is an alternate version:

 RESULT=`mysql -u$USER -p$PASSWORD -e "SHOW DATABASES" | grep $DATABASE`
 if [ "$RESULT" == "$DATABASE" ]; then
    echo "Database exist"
 else
    echo "Database does not exist"
 fi

IF there is a DB named abcd and we use -Fo after grep then for the search result of DB a/ab/abc the script will show the result Database exist.