Run multiple sql scripts in perl

Question

I have 5 .sql scripts that create tables and insert into the tables. . I want to run them together as a transaction in PERL. I have searched for it in Google and SO , but only I could find about running the scripts using Batch script. I have no idea how to run the scripts together using PERL DBI as a transaction . Can anyone please help. I am new to perl and mysql and I have no idea how to do that .

This is what I am trying to do based on the suggestions by Barmar:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper;

my $user="root";
my $password="M3m01r!@#";
my $db="DBI:$driver:database=$database";

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=testdb;mysql_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock",$user,$password) or die "could not connect $DBI::errstr\n";
my $st = $dbh->prepare("mysql -u root -p < rr.sql") or die "$DBI::errstr\n";
$st->execute();

But it throws this error

DBD::mysql::st execute failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'mysql -u root -p < rr.sql' at line 1 at dbi.pl line 15.

Can anyone help please?

Answer 1

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 my $st = $dbh->prepare("mysql -u root -p < rr.sql") or die "$DBI::errstr\n";
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Line 2 is where you're broken.

The string that you feed to prepare is supposed to be the actual SQL. You've fed it a shell command intended to run mysql. So take the contents of rr.sql, put it in a variable (either have your program read it in, or copy/paste it), and then call prepare() on the variable.

 my $ferret_query = "select name, dob, type from ferret order by dob";
 my $sth = $dbh->prepare($ferret_query);
 $sth->execute()