From 4312ceb9635e764efd81c95f0bfdb846774bcec2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cedric Girard <girard.cedric@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:00:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added script to dump the content of a database into separate
 csv files

---
 MySQL/dump_csv.sh | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 MySQL/dump_csv.sh

diff --git a/MySQL/dump_csv.sh b/MySQL/dump_csv.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9c0e8af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MySQL/dump_csv.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+host='127.0.0.1'
+database='cacti'
+user='root'
+outpath='/tmp/cacti'
+
+read -s -p"$user DB password: " password
+echo
+tables=`mysql -u$user -p$password $database -h$host -N -B -e "show tables"`
+if [ -z $tables ] ; then
+    echo "Cannot fetch DB tables"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+#create output dir and change permission if needed
+[ -d $outpath ] || mkdir $outpath
+[ $(stat --printf='%a' $outpath) -ge 777 ] || chmod a+w $outpath
+
+IFS='
+'
+success=true
+for table in $tables ; do
+    mysql -u$user -p$password -h$host $database -N -B -e "select * from $table into outfile '$outpath/$table.csv' fields terminated by ';' enclosed by '\"'"  || success=false
+done
+
+if $success ; then
+    echo "All tables of $database database have been successfuly dumped to csv files in $outpath"
+else
+    echo "Errors encoutered while dumping $database database tables to $outpath"
+fi