MySQL output query to file

Book page Instead of being asleep at 16:17 on 1 May 2008, kitt created this:

Ways to output the results of a MySQL query to a file:

Use the command line switch option -e to input the query and > to redirect the output to a file:

% mysql -uuser -ppass -e "SELECT id, name FROM person WHERE name like '%smith%'" database > smiths.txt

Use the SQL query construct INTO OUTFILE 'filename' to write the results to file from inside the MySQL command line interface:
```
% mysql -uuser -ppass database
mysql> SELECT id, name INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/smiths.txt' FROM person WHERE name like '%smith%';
Query OK, 10 rows affected (0.01 sec)
```
Be sure where you have write permissions where the output file will be written to. Specify the full path if in doubt.

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