The mysql command-line client has several different output options. One of these is HTML.
Import the ISFDB database as described in the Importing the data exported by mysqldump recipe in this chapter. Create a file called isfdb-001.sql using the following command line:
SELECT * FROM authors LIMIT 100;
We could put whatever commands we want in this file, or give it a different name, but this works for the purposes of this recipe.
Open a terminal and navigate to where we saved the
isfdb-001.sqlfile.Issue the following command on the command line (not from within the
mysqlcommand-line client, but by calling the client with some special options):mysql --html isfdb < isfdb-001.sql > isfdb-001.htmlExecute either a
dirorlscommand and we'll see that now there is a file namedisfdb-001.htmlin the directory.We can now either open the newly created
isfdb-001.htmlfile in our favorite text editor, or view it in a web browser, such as Firefox...