This is a short script that I wrote in order to convert the default output of MySQL command-line queries to a CSV format for manipulation in a spreadsheet application.

I often needed to execute custom SQL queries on a production database via SSH and at the frequency that I was running these commands, it was easier to just copy the results from the screen into a file locally and then run this script to convert it to a CSV format than it would have been to actually use MySQL's CSV export functionality to specify a temporary storage location on the server, grab the file from the server somehow, and then delete the temporary file from the server.