Have a large script (like a DB dump) you want to execute from the command line in one line so you can just drop it in a batch/shell script and run with it? Assuming MySql is on your system path, here’s the command…
mysql -u user -ppass < C:\temp\myscript.sqlWhere "user" is the username, and "pass" is the password (note, there's no space or other delimiter between the "-p" and the password)
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