<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Ben Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bwalton@opencsw.org">bwalton@opencsw.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Sorry, I should clarify this...<br>
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I don't think any shell language is the right tool for interacting<br>
with the DB.</blockquote><div><br>well, i sort of agree. I dont use "shell language" to interact with the DB, I use "mysql" ;-)<br>This is actually a very clean, efficient way to insert, and modify, data. It only gets ugly if you want to get data OUT.<br>
<br>(which is why I occasionally, very rarely, write php-command-line scripts ;-) <br><br><br><br></div></div><br>