Posted by NC on 02/14/06 05:22

Tony Peardon wrote:
>
> I was looking througn the manual, trying to make sence out of all this sql
> stuff, when I discovered that I could define my tables in a text file,
> rather than typing them at the mysql> prompt. line by line, only to see if
> fail because of a simple typo; So I wrote a file.
> ...
> "How do I 'run' this file?"

Use the command-line MySQL client:

mysql -u [user] -p[password] < [file_name]

Note that there is no space between -p and the password...

Cheers,
NC

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