On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:01:15 GMT, Vahis <waxborg@gmail.com.invalid>
wrote:

>> I hope someone can suggest a simpler way.
>
>I did already. I posted a shell script that can be run in cron.

In fact, I didn't read any further than "shell script." Will the same
command work in a Windows batch file? If so, it should do what I
need.

When I looked the documentation for this stuff I was very tired, and I
forgot that MySQL documentation is entirely Unix-centric. I saw
examples that begin with the "shell>" prompt, and they only registered
as "this ain't a real command." Sorry about the confusion.