mysqlimport

Parameters#

Parameter	Description
`--delete` `-D`	empty the table before importing the text file
`--fields-optionally-enclosed-by`	define the character that quotes the fields
`--fields-terminated-by`	field terminator
`--ignore` `-i`	ignore the ingested row in case of duplicate-keys
`--lines-terminated-by`	define row terminator
`--password` `-p`	password
`--port` `-P`	port
`--replace` `-r`	overwrite the old entry row in case of duplicate-keys
`--user` `-u`	username
`--where` `-w`	specify a condition
## Remarks#
`mysqlimport` will use the name of the imported file, after stripping the extension, to determine the destination table.
## Basic usage
Given the tab-separated file `employee.txt`

1 \t Arthur Dent
2 \t Marvin
3 \t Zaphod Beeblebrox

$ mysql --user=user --password=password mycompany -e 'CREATE TABLE employee(id INT, name VARCHAR(100), PRIMARY KEY (id))'

$ mysqlimport --user=user --password=password mycompany employee.txt

Using a custom field-delimiter

Given the text file employee.txt

1|Arthur Dent
2|Marvin
3|Zaphod Beeblebrox

$ mysqlimport --fields-terminated-by='|' mycompany employee.txt

Using a custom row-delimiter

This example is useful for windows-like endings:

$ mysqlimport --lines-terminated-by='\r\n' mycompany employee.txt

Handling duplicate keys

Given the table Employee

id	Name
3	Yooden Vranx

And the file employee.txt

1 \t Arthur Dent
2 \t Marvin
3 \t Zaphod Beeblebrox

The --ignore option will ignore the entry on duplicate keys

$ mysqlimport --ignore mycompany employee.txt

id	Name
1	Arthur Dent
2	Marvin
3	Yooden Vranx

The --replace option will overwrite the old entry

$ mysqlimport --replace mycompany employee.txt

id	Name
1	Arthur Dent
2	Marvin
3	Zaphod Beeblebrox

Conditional import

$ mysqlimport --where="id>2" mycompany employee.txt

Import a standard csv

$ mysqlimport
    --fields-optionally-enclosed-by='"'
    --fields-terminated-by=,
    --lines-terminated-by="\r\n"
    mycompany employee.csv