Thursday, January 5, 2012

Linux moving or deleting large files getting Argument List Too Long

When you try to move or delete a lot of files in linux cli and getting Argument List Too Long, you can try to filter it by
find . -type f -name "*.xml" | xargs -i mv {}

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Mysql Export and Import from select statement

To export into a csv file from a select statement in mysql, the command is

SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'data.txt'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
FROM table2;

To read the comma-delimited file back in, the correct statement would be:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.txt' INTO TABLE table2
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',';