That works great, thanks! And I figured out how to suppress the column headers (mysql switch "--skip-column-names") and the ASCII boxes (mysql switch "-s")
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Browse All TopicsI am writing a bash script to backup some information. I am currently a MySQL novice, but I figured out that I can find location(s) of this information by doing 2 SQL queries like:
"SELECT id FROM domains where name='$SITE' limit 1"
I then take the result of that ($DOMID) and use it in the other query like:
"SELECT name FROM data_bases where dom_id=$DOMID"
My question is can I combine the 2 queries to basically do something like:
"SELECT name FROM data_bases where dom_id=(SELECT id FROM domains where name='$SITE' limit 1)"
I am calling these from a bash script like:
mysql -usuer -ppassword -Ddatabase -e "SELECT ..."
So a related question would be, is there also a way to suppress the column labels and/or ASCII boxes around the output, so my parsing of the output would be easier?
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by: angelIIIPosted on 2009-02-22 at 22:39:47ID: 23708661
you can do it like this:
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