In MySql's interpreter, it's very easy to dump a table to the screen along with its field names.
There seems to be no simple way to export a table to a tab-delimted or CSV outfile including its column headers.
I'm trying to do this using only SQL or the Linux command line, without writing a program in another language.
Thank you
Piping the query to the commandline client outputs a tab separated list with the column names as the first line
$ echo "select * from surveys limit 5" | mysql -uroot -pGandalf surveys
phone param1 param2 param3 param4 p0 p1 p2 p3 audio4 code time
XXXXXXXXX 2008-07-02 11:17:23 XXXXXXXX SAT - - - - - ERROR 2008-07-02 12:18:32
XXXXXXXXX 2008-07-02 11:22:52 XXXXXXXX SAT - - - - - COLGADO 2008-07-02 12:04:29
XXXXXXXXX 2008-07-02 11:41:29 XXXXXXXX SAT - - - - - COLGADO 2008-07-02 12:07:22
XXXXXXXXX 2008-07-02 12:16:19 XXXXXXXX SAT 1 1 1 9 XXXXXXXXX_4.wav OK 2008-07-02 16:14:27
XXXXXXXXX 2008-07-02 08:21:25 XXXXXXXX SAT 1 1 1 1 XXXXXXXXX_4.wav OK 2008-07-02 12:29:40