How should I tackle --secure-file-priv in MySQL?

Question

I am learning MySQL and tried using a LOAD DATA clause. When I used it as below:

LOAD DATA INFILE \"text.txt\" INTO table mytable;

Answer 1

This worked for me (had the additional problem of not being able to use LOCAL with my current MySQL version in the statement LOAD DATE INFILE ... )

sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start --secure-file-priv='' --local-infile

The above works for that given path on my machine; you may have to adjust your path.

Then use:

mysql -u root -p

One important point is that you should have the CSV in the MySQL data folder. In my machine it is located at: /usr/local/mysql-8.0.18-macos10.14-x86_64/data

You can change the folder permission if needed to drop a CSV in the data folder.

Setup:
macOS Catalina version 10.15.5
MySQL version 8.0.18