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Old 05-11-2010
bash assign mysql query single field to variable
I'm running a bash script query and assigning the output to a variable like this:
Code:
exists=`mysql -u $USER_NAME --password=$PASSWORD -D "somedb" \
           -e "SELECT * FROM somedb.sometable WHERE field1 ='$a' \
           AND field2 ='$b' LIMIT 0 , 30";`

which returns something like:
Code:
echo $exists

id field1 field2 field3 field4 field5

if field1 = $a and field2 = $b. I want to assign only one field from that output to a variable so
Code:
c=field3

I was using awk, but if field 3 is more than one word then awk thinks that's 2 fields and screws up my variable.
# 2  
Old 05-11-2010
Why are you doing 'SELECT *'?

Why not 'SELECT field3'?
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Old 05-12-2010
wow, that was profoundly obvious Smilie I can't believe I didn't see that after getting this far, I need sleep! I appreciate another set of eyes looking at it, thanks.
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