How to execute a MySQL command from a shell script?

Question

How can I execute an SQL command through a shell script so that I can make it automated?

I want to restore data I have collected in a SQL file using a shell script.

Answer 1

The core of the question has been answered several times already, I just thought I'd add that backticks (`s) have beaning in both shell scripting and SQL. If you need to use them in SQL for specifying a table or database name you'll need to escape them in the shell script like so:

mysql -p=password -u "root" -Bse "CREATE DATABASE \`${1}_database\`;
CREATE USER '$1'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '$2';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `${1}_database`.* TO '$1'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;"

Of course, generating SQL through concatenated user input (passed arguments) shouldn't be done unless you trust the user input.It'd be a lot more secure to put it in another scripting language with support for parameters / correctly escaping strings for insertion into MySQL.

Answer 2

Use

echo "your sql script;" | mysql -u -p -h db_name