On 09/23/2013 05:19 PM, Andreas wrote:
Hi, I need to import some log-files of an application running on a different host. This app can't talk to the db but only creates daily a dump in a remote directory that is mountable via samba by a Linux host that runs the db-server. The import would be easy if the files had a constant name but the app creates csv files with names like "ExportYYYYMMDD". I could have cron to use "find" to search for all the files in the mounted directoy. But how can I pipe a SQL script into the db-server that takes the filenames from "find" as a parameter? Because of the somewhat limited intelligence of the application that creates the logs I have to read the contents of the log in a temporary table and insert from there only those lines that aren't allready in the actual log-table within the db. I've got all covered but the filenames that change from day to day. :( I could copy each of those files in a temp directory and import from there so that the sql script wouldn't have to deal with date within the file-name but I'd rather store the names in a table though so that the script could skip all those files that allready got imported previously. So how would I get the filenames into the sql-script?
Do man on find and look for -exec.
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