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A script for killing slow MySQL queries, suited for a cron job
#!/bin/sh
# Credentials for a MySQL user with PROCESS, SUPER permissions
USERNAME=
PASSWORD=
# MySQL Server location
HOST=127.0.0.1
PORT=3306
TIMEOUT=60 # 1 minute
TARGET_USER= # MySQL user to monitor
MYSQL="mysql -u $USERNAME --password=$PASSWORD -h $HOST -P $PORT -B"
$MYSQL -N -e 'SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST' | cut -f 1,2,6 | awk '{ if ($3 > $TIMEOUT && $2 == $TARGET_USER) print "KILL " $1 ";" }'
@birendra14
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Hi
can you tell me which value have been assign to $1,$2,$3?

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Cheddies commented Jun 3, 2016

@birendra14 $1 $2 and $3 are refering to the values from the cut statement beforehand - so $3 is process time, $2 is user and $1 is process id.

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