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# 1  
Old 10-11-2009
New Line help needed
I am doing a simple SHOW DATABASES query:

#!/bin/bash
echo `mysql -e "SHOW DATABASES;"`


It produces this:

Database information_schema mysql test

There are 2 things I want to do, but failing at.
1. Exclude the header "Database information_schema"
2. add a new line between each database "\n"

I'm running into walls for both of them.

I've tried different ways to use tail +2 (echo `mysql -e "SHOW DATABASES;"` | tail +2) - but to no avail. And the new line is elusive.

Any thoughts?
# 2  
Old 10-11-2009
Hi.

Why are you using echo at all?

That will only help to supress the newlines.

If you have to perhaps use the -e option

Code:
man echo

(-e is only available on Linux!)
# 3  
Old 10-11-2009
What's the output from 'mysql -e "SHOW DATABASES;"' on it's own look like?
Without seeing the raw output we're working with it's hard to be sure, but I would guess you want something like:
Code:
for database in `mysql -e "SHOW DATABASES;" | tail +2`
do
  echo $database
done

# 4  
Old 10-18-2009
Bug
Code:
#!/bin/sh
for dbName in `mysqlshow -uroot -pPassWord | awk '{print $2}'`
do
echo "$dbName" | egrep -v 'mysql|test|Databases|information_schema';
done

# 5  
Old 10-19-2009
Code:
NL='
'
db=$( mysql -e "SHOW DATABASES;" )
db=${db#*"$NL"}
printf "%s\n" "$db"

# 6  
Old 10-19-2009
Assuming the output is like this:
Code:
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| test               |
+--------------------+

Code:
mysql -e "SHOW DATABASES;"|grep -o '\w*'|tail -n +3

will produce:
Code:
mysql
test

# 7  
Old 10-19-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
If you have to perhaps use the -e option

Code:
man echo

(-e is only available on Linux!)

Not so. It is part of bash, which may be found on any system.

However, echo is deprecated; use printf instead.
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