mysql2csv
This project helps convert the mysql text result format to csv. This is necessary if you need to run queries on mysql on Amazon RDS, which does not allow the SELECT ... INTO ... OUTFILE syntax because there isn't access to (disc) storage on the server. Instead you can either copy and paste, or use the tee command to save the query output to your local machine and run this command to convert the mysql text output format to csv.
Usage
cat queryresult.txt | mysql2csv > result.csv
Design
The grammar for a mysql result looks roughly like this
LINE ::= <LEFT-PIPE><TEXT><RIGHT-PIPE>
TEXT ::= <TEXT><MID-PIPE><TEXT>|<CHARS>
CHARS ::= [utf-8 character set]
LEFT-PIPE ::= "| "
RIGHT-PIPE ::= " |"
MID-PIPE ::= " | "