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MySQL: silent insecure password warning

By Joris Berthelot Published January 22nd 2021 Tagged server, bash, process substitution, cli, console, devops, hack, mysql, zsh, trick, shell, protip, mariadb, linux, hint, howto, database, docker

I won't invent anything new here but I'll share a quick improvement on an answer I've found on Stack Overflow.

If you are doing batch actions and don't want to write in .mylogin.cnf file, there's the trick: use a process substitution!

$ mysqldump --defaults-extra-file=<(printf "[client]\nhost = host.rds.amazonaws.com\nuser = username\npassword = \$PassW0rd\$") \
    database > dump.sql

This also works for any other file input, like Docker env file run param:

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ZSH: Open a new window using the last pwd

By Joris Berthelot Published May 4th 2011 Tagged bash, console, english, hack, script, zsh, wp-imported

A friend of mine used ZSH on his Mac and since I know him and his .zshrc, I keep ZSH as the main CLI on my laptop, it works so well, I advise you to switch if still not 😛 .

But, I was very tired of typing a long cd command every time I wanted to open a new Terminal tab to execute a command in the same directory or close to where I was working; so I looked for a hack to get rid of this pain over the Internet and now, I'd like to share it with you.

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