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How do you make a file executable in unix?
How do you make a file executable in unix? I've tried -x. The file in question is a list of mysql commands. How would I make this file executable?

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a list of mysql commands will never be executable.

you want to pipe them to a program like

cat commands.sql | mysql mydb
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mysql mydb < commands.sql

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