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Mastering Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition
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Mastering Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition

by Mokhtar Ebrahim, Andrew Mallett
April 2018
Beginner
284 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Version 3 – MySQL/MariaDB

In the next script, we will provide the detail for a database connection along with the SQL query to execute. You will be able to run this if you have a MariaDB or MySQL database server on your system, or one that you can connect to. For this demonstration, we will use Linux Mint 18.3 and MariaDB version 10; however, this should work for any MySQL server or MariaDB, from version 5 onwards. The script collects user and password information as well as the SQL command to execute. Create the following script as $HOME/bin/run_mysql.sh:

#!/bin/bash# Author: @theurbanpenguin# Web: www.theurbapenguin.com# Script to prompt for MYSQL user password and command# Last Edited: July 4 2015read -p "MySQL User: " user_nameread -sp ...
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ISBN: 9781788990554