Creating a .bat file to execute mysql and other commands

You can run mysql in batch mode, as noted in the documentation.

mysql -h host -u user -p < batch-file

Basically you use a file containing all of your commands as an input parameter - mysql will execute the contents of that file.

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Edit: If you want to build your query on the fly, you can always have your batch file write out a query to a temporary file that you can then load for execution by mysql. For example:

echo show tables from test > C:\path\to\file.sql
mysql -h host -u user -p < C:\path\to\file.sql

Run mysql with -e option:

mysql -h host -u user -p -e 'SHOW TABLES FROM test'

Perhaps you may want to try a small trick that emerged from other question in this forum (that was deleted unfortunately).

You may insert the input for a command directly in the lines below the command and then execute the file NOT as Batch file, but as input por cmd.exe (this is similar to a here document in Unix). For example:

script.TXT:

@echo off
mysql -u user -p
*enter in the password*
USE databasename
SELCT * FROM table;
EXIT
echo Exit from MYSQL...

Execute previous "script" this way:

cmd < script.TXT

If you perform this test, please report the result...

Antonio