What's the difference between mysqlimport and mysql < dbfile.sql

Question

It's basically this - I was used to using mysql < dbfile.sql to restore a database dump created with mysqldump . Then I saw there is mysqlimport , with no reference to the other way. The arguments of both CLIs look similar. So, what's the actual difference? (And is there any)

Answer 1

我的理解是mysqlimport相当于LOAD DATA INFILE ，所以要加载的数据必须是例如CSV格式，而不是mysqldump的常用输出。