When I attempt to execute a multi-line SQL in mysql via shell script:
mysql -uroot -ppass mydb <<<EOF
SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'table.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
FROM mytable limit 1;
EOF
I get a syntax error:
ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'EOF' at line 1
What's the right way to script it?
The syntax for bash heredoc is:
COMMAND <<InputComesFromHERE
...
...
...
InputComesFromHERE
So you have an extra <.
In order to prepare and test you can replace COMMAND (i.e. mysql -uroot -ppass mydb in this case) with cat to have a look at the exact SQL code that will be executed.
For future readers, one easy way is as follows if they wish to export in bulk using bash, tested on mariadb, same should work in mysql too.
akshay@ideapad:/tmp$ mysql -u someuser -p test -e "select * from offices"
Enter password:
+------------+---------------+------------------+--------------------------+--------------+------------+-----------+------------+-----------+
| officeCode | city | phone | addressLine1 | addressLine2 | state | country | postalCode | territory |
+------------+---------------+------------------+--------------------------+--------------+------------+-----------+------------+-----------+
| 1 | San Francisco | +1 650 219 4782 | 100 Market Street | Suite 300 | CA | USA | 94080 | NA |
| 2 | Boston | +1 215 837 0825 | 1550 Court Place | Suite 102 | MA | USA | 02107 | NA |
| 3 | NYC | +1 212 555 3000 | 523 East 53rd Street | apt. 5A | NY | USA | 10022 | NA |
| 4 | Paris | +33 14 723 4404 | 43 Rue Jouffroy D'abbans | NULL | NULL | France | 75017 | EMEA |
| 5 | Tokyo | +81 33 224 5000 | 4-1 Kioicho | NULL | Chiyoda-Ku | Japan | 102-8578 | Japan |
| 6 | Sydney | +61 2 9264 2451 | 5-11 Wentworth Avenue | Floor #2 | NULL | Australia | NSW 2010 | APAC |
| 7 | London | +44 20 7877 2041 | 25 Old Broad Street | Level 7 | NULL | UK | EC2N 1HN | EMEA |
+------------+---------------+------------------+--------------------------+--------------+------------+-----------+------------+-----------+
If you're exporting by non-root user then set permission like below
root@ideapad:/tmp# mysql -u root -p
MariaDB[(none)]> UPDATE mysql.user SET File_priv = 'Y' WHERE user='someuser' AND host='localhost';
Restart or Reload mysqld
akshay@ideapad:/tmp$ sudo su
root@ideapad:/tmp# systemctl restart mariadb
Sample code snippet
akshay@ideapad:/tmp$ cat test.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
user="someuser"
password="password"
database="test"
mysql -u"$user" -p"$password" "$database" <<EOF
SELECT *
INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/csvs/offices.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|'
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
FROM offices;
EOF
Execute
akshay@ideapad:/tmp$ mkdir -p /tmp/csvs
akshay@ideapad:/tmp$ chmod +x test.sh
akshay@ideapad:/tmp$ ./test.sh
akshay@ideapad:/tmp$ cat /tmp/csvs/offices.csv
"1"|"San Francisco"|"+1 650 219 4782"|"100 Market Street"|"Suite 300"|"CA"|"USA"|"94080"|"NA"
"2"|"Boston"|"+1 215 837 0825"|"1550 Court Place"|"Suite 102"|"MA"|"USA"|"02107"|"NA"
"3"|"NYC"|"+1 212 555 3000"|"523 East 53rd Street"|"apt. 5A"|"NY"|"USA"|"10022"|"NA"
"4"|"Paris"|"+33 14 723 4404"|"43 Rue Jouffroy D'abbans"|\N|\N|"France"|"75017"|"EMEA"
"5"|"Tokyo"|"+81 33 224 5000"|"4-1 Kioicho"|\N|"Chiyoda-Ku"|"Japan"|"102-8578"|"Japan"
"6"|"Sydney"|"+61 2 9264 2451"|"5-11 Wentworth Avenue"|"Floor #2"|\N|"Australia"|"NSW 2010"|"APAC"
"7"|"London"|"+44 20 7877 2041"|"25 Old Broad Street"|"Level 7"|\N|"UK"|"EC2N 1HN"|"EMEA"
