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I'd like to run multiple MySQL queries and save them to specified files. Queries are saved in a bash script, queries.sh, e.g.:

cat queries.sh
mysql -u <user> -p <DBname> -e "select Col1 from Table1 where Condition;" > /home/<user>/queries/Col1Table1Cond
mysql -u <user> -p <DBname> -e "select Col5 from Table2 where Condition;" > /home/<user>/queries/Col5Table2Cond

Executing the script is not enough, since <user> has to input his password at each query and this is compromising the script flow.

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So what do you plan to do ? Keep the password in a variable ? Parse commandline switch ?? – Gilles Quenot Sep 25 '16 at 12:36
    
How about storing the password as an environment variable or in another file? – Barun Sep 25 '16 at 12:37
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Try this ;)

user="jonnDoe"
dbname="customers"
password="VerySecret"

mysql -u $user -D $dbname -p $password -e "select Col1 from Table1 where Condition;" > /home/$user/queries/Col1Table1Cond
mysql -u $user -D $dbname -p $password -e "select Col5 from Table2 where Condition;" > /home/$user/queries/Col5Table2Cond

A better practice is to configure mysql /etc/mysql/my.cnf file with the password inside, this way, no need to enter it each times :

[client]
password    = your_password

In this later case, remove all password related things from previous script

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There usually are a few different ways to achieve this.

Store it in an external file containing only the password:

$cat password.txt
Password

$cat queries.sh
mysql -u <user> -p$(cat password.txt) <rest of the command>

Store it in another shell script:

$cat settings.sh
PASSWORD=Password

$cat queries.sh
source settings.sh
mysql -u <user> -p"$PASSWORD" <rest of the command>

Store it in an environment variable called PASSWORD:

$cat queries.sh
mysql -u <user> -p"$PASSWORD" <rest of the command>

Also, see How to auto login mysql in shell scripts?

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Thanks Barun. I think this solution is more portable if the script needs to be executed by different users with personal password. – dovah Sep 25 '16 at 12:51

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