A simple command to dump or import large data on a mysql database:

mysql -h localhost -uroot -pAa5sD1 nightcrawler < /home/tux/Desktop/nightcrawler.sql

where:

  • -h localhost is for my mysql host or server
  • -u root is the mysql user
  • -p pAa5sD1 is the user’s password
  • nightcrawler is the empty database
  • /home/tux/Desktop/nightcrawler.sql is the data to import or usually a back of the database
  • < is use to import and > is used to export data from a mysql database