'<' operator is reserved PowerShell Error

Question

I am trying to use mysql -u root -p Tutorials < tut_backup.sql in PowerShell to restore a table in a MySQL DB but it's giving me The '<' operator is reserved for future use. error. Is there a roundabout way?

Solution 1

How about

 & cmd.exe /c "mysql -u root -p Tutorials < tut_backup.sql" 

Solution 2

You can pipe in the contents like so:

Get-Content tut_backup.sql | mysql -u root -p Tutorials

Solution 3

Try this instead:

mysql -u root -p
(prompts for password)
source tut_backup.sql

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