Comments on: Export Mysql Database into a CSV File

By: Steeve Cayla

Steeve Cayla — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:20:23 +0000

Thanks a lot !!
Just what I needed

By: Vitalie

Vitalie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:15:02 +0000

Hi!

I tried this command of MySQL on Ubuntu 8.10 but it says:

bash: .: filename argument required
.: usage: . filename [arguments]
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: `.’
bash: s/^/./: No such file or directory
bash: s/$/./: No such file or directory
bash: s/n//g.: No such file or directory

What is exact command I should run?

By: Bianca

Bianca — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:46:08 +0000

Where is this file saved?

Thank you!

Bianca

By: jaybee

jaybee — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:20:48 +0000

Sheeri what you suggest is different in the case the server and the client are different machines, which is the most likely in the real world.

“Select * INTO OUTFILE” can only output to the server host machine.
If you want an output file on your client machine, mysql -e is a good option.

Unless you want to scp to your server… assuming that you even have the permission to write somewhere.

By: Sheeri

Sheeri — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:39:16 +0000

You can also use

SELECT x,y,z INTO OUTFILE ‘/path/to/file’
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’ ENCLOSED BY ‘”‘
FROM tbl WHERE ….

see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html

By: Thiago

Thiago — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:03:14 +0000

I translated this article for the Portuguese of Brazil. The automatic translation was very bad:

http://www.ajudalinux.org/wps/?p=91