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I have this query that outputs updates older than 7 days from a database. How would I make a script that takes the MySQL statement and puts it into a script to be executed by cron.

echo "select name, reported_at from nodes where reported_at < curdate() -7;" |
mysql dashboard

Sample output:

name    reported_at
xadf.edu    2012-03-21 14:39:02
xadf.edu    2012-03-22 15:30:01
adsfsadf.edu    2012-03-14 14:40:02
ekdahlj.edu 2012-03-23 03:40:04
adfasdf.net 2012-03-21 14:42:02
eqrsdr.edu  2012-03-15 14:42:02
qwerwfva.edu    2012-03-13 14:42:03
qerqwer.edu 2012-03-23 14:40:01
adfasde.edu 2012-03-05 17:42:03
bsfdgs.edu  2012-03-23 15:20:01
adfadsf.edu 2012-03-23 14:43:01
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What do you have exactly? All I see is a path & a report output or something. – Mat Mar 30 '12 at 16:24

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You could create a file ~/path/to/myquery.sql:

select name, reported_at from nodes where reported_at < curdate() -7;

And to edit your crontab execute 

crontab -e

And in your crontab add a line

* * * * * mysql dashboard < ~/path/to/myquery.sql > ~/path/to/query/output

To edit how often this command is run, you have to edit the five *'s at the start of that line. To understand how to do this properly, you can check out this page.

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Just save it in a file, then redirect it into the mysql tool in your crontab.

* * * * * mysql ... < savedstatements.sql
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