<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>The results are the same for mariadb. The database query stuff seems to be working, it's something related to the filelist.txt getting created correctly.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The underlying problem is that evidently MariaDB doesn’t allow an external file to be created the same as mysql. Since the queryres file is no longer created, nothing else happens.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am converting to python so that the returned data from the query is in a data array and then parsing the data array instead of from a input file.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Jay</div></div></body></html>