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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cat or cut to delimit csv? Post 302312601 by newtony on Saturday 2nd of May 2009 05:48:50 AM
Old 05-02-2009
cat or cut to delimit csv?

Hi,

Im a pretty large noob to linux/perl etc and im trying to use mysql slurp to take a delimited file and import it into mysql using stdin (in the hope its faster)
mysqlslurp - slurp <STDIN> into a MySQL table - search.cpan.org
Christopher Brown / MySQL-Slurp - search.cpan.org

Using "cat": This seems to only take a tab delimited file. My import files have varying delimiters e.g. "|" with the quotes. Is there any way to get cat to work with other delimiters such as pipe.

I have tried using cut: This just puts everything in one column
Code:
cut -f1-9 -d="|" myfile.csv | mysqlslurp --database=my_db --table=my_table

I also tried using cat: This doesnt seem to work with mysqlimport options as mysqlslurp mentions that they can be passed through
Code:
cat myfile.csv | mysqlslurp --database=my_db --table=my_table --fields-terminated-by="|"

any help is much appreciated

Cheers Smilie
 

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SQL::ReservedWords::MySQL(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    SQL::ReservedWords::MySQL(3pm)

NAME
SQL::ReservedWords::MySQL - Reserved SQL words by MySQL SYNOPSIS
if ( SQL::ReservedWords::MySQL->is_reserved( $word ) ) { print "$word is a reserved MySQL word!"; } DESCRIPTION
Determine if words are reserved by MySQL. METHODS
is_reserved( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either MySQL 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 or 5.1. is_reserved_by_mysql3( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by MySQL 3.2. is_reserved_by_mysql4( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either MySQL 4.0 or 4.1. is_reserved_by_mysql5( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either MySQL 5.0 or 5.1. reserved_by( $word ) Returns a list with MySQL versions that reserves $word. words Returns a list with all reserved words. EXPORTS
Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported: is_reserved is_reserved_by_mysql3 is_reserved_by_mysql4 is_reserved_by_mysql5 reserved_by words SEE ALSO
SQL::ReservedWords <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/> AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org" COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-28 SQL::ReservedWords::MySQL(3pm)
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