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Reputation: 1

Running mysql commands in bash script generating errors

Running a bash script executing MySQL commands, I get an error on this line.

$MYSQL_BIN $DATABASE -e \
"ALTER TABLE `nodes` ADD COLUMN `created_date` int(32) AFTER `address`";

The error is created_date: command not found

As well as on this line:

$MYSQL_BIN $DATABASE -e \
"UPDATE `nodes` SET `created_date` = UNIX_TIMESTAMP() WHERE `created_date` 
IS NULL AND `address` IS NOT NULL";

ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SET = UNIX_TIMESTAMP() WHERE IS NULL AND IS NOT NULL' at line 1.

I believe the first error is because I'm probably not escaping quotes?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2497

Answers (1)

Emre Yazici
Emre Yazici

Reputation: 10174

Bash uses bactick operator (`) to indicate command substitution, that is, substitution of the standard output from one command into a line of text defining another command.

So you should either use single quotes instead of double ones or escape the backticks properly:

$MYSQL_BIN $DATABASE -e 
'ALTER TABLE `nodes` ADD COLUMN `created_date` int(32) AFTER `address`';

or

$MYSQL_BIN $DATABASE -e 
"ALTER TABLE \`nodes\` ADD COLUMN \`created_date\` int(32) AFTER \`address\`";

Upvotes: 4

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