Mysql XML table export command line

Question

Maybe I\'m not seeing something here but WHY would this command line work perfectly fine and provide a result set when run on a LINUX command line but when executed from a W

Answer 1

Windows command line does not recognize ' as a quote character, so your statement parameter becomes SELECT (truncated at the 1st space).

You must use " instead, as Heena Hussain suggested.

Answer 2

Can you please try this...

C:\>mysql -u <userid> -p<password> -e "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%version%'" –-xml

and this...

mysql -u db_user -p db_name --xml -e "SELECT * FROM table_name" > table_name.xml