MYSQL mysqlimport

Basic usage

Given the tab-separated file employee.txt

1 \t Arthur Dent

2 \t Marvin

3 \t Zaphod Beeblebrox

$ mysql --user=user --password=password mycompany -e 'CREATE TABLE employee(id INT, name
VARCHAR(100), PRIMARY KEY (id))'
$ mysqlimport --user=user --password=password mycompany employee.txt

Using a custom field-delimiter

Given the text file employee.txt

1|Arthur Dent

2|Marvin

3|Zaphod Beeblebrox

$ mysqlimport --fields-terminated-by='|' mycompany employee.txt

Using a custom row-delimiter

This example is useful for windows-like endings:

$ mysqlimport --lines-terminated-by='\r\n' mycompany employee.txt

Conclusion

In this page (written and validated by A. Gawali) you learned about MYSQL mysqlimport . What's Next? If you are interested in completing MYSQL tutorial, your next topic will be learning about: MYSQL LOAD DATA INFILE.

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