MySQL Workbench可以将记录集导出到CSV，而且它似乎可以很好地处理字段中的逗号。CSV可以在OpenOffice Calc中打开。

我是这么做的:

echo $QUERY | \
  mysql -B  $MYSQL_OPTS | \
  perl -F"\t" -lane 'print join ",", map {s/"/""/g; /^[\d.]+$/ ? $_ : qq("$_")} @F ' | \
  mail -s 'report' person@address

Perl脚本(从别处截取)很好地将以制表符间隔的字段转换为CSV。

这个答案使用Python和一个流行的第三方库，PyMySQL。我添加它是因为Python的csv库足够强大，可以正确处理许多不同风格的.csv，而且没有其他答案使用Python代码与数据库交互。

import contextlib
import csv
import datetime
import os

# https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL
import pymysql

SQL_QUERY = """
SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE my_attribute = 'my_attribute';
"""

# embedding passwords in code gets nasty when you use version control
# the environment is not much better, but this is an example
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12461484
SQL_USER = os.environ['SQL_USER']
SQL_PASS = os.environ['SQL_PASS']

connection = pymysql.connect(host='localhost',
                             user=SQL_USER,
                             password=SQL_PASS,
                             db='dbname')

with contextlib.closing(connection):
    with connection.cursor() as cursor:
        cursor.execute(SQL_QUERY)
        # Hope you have enough memory :)
        results = cursor.fetchall()

output_file = 'my_query-{}.csv'.format(datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))
with open(output_file, 'w', newline='') as csvfile:
    # http://stackoverflow.com/a/17725590/2958070 about lineterminator
    csv_writer = csv.writer(csvfile, lineterminator='\n')
    csv_writer.writerows(results)

微小的Bash脚本，用于对CSV转储进行简单查询，灵感来自Tim Harding的回答。

#!/bin/bash

# $1 = query to execute
# $2 = outfile
# $3 = mysql database name
# $4 = mysql username

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Query not given"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$2" ]; then
    echo "Outfile not given"
    exit 1
fi

MYSQL_DB=""
MYSQL_USER="root"

if [ ! -z "$3" ]; then
    MYSQL_DB=$3
fi

if [ ! -z "$4" ]; then
    MYSQL_USER=$4
fi

if [ -z "$MYSQL_DB" ]; then
    echo "Database name not given"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$MYSQL_USER" ]; then
    echo "Database user not given"
    exit 1
fi

mysql -u $MYSQL_USER -p -D $MYSQL_DB -B -s -e "$1" | sed "s/'/\'/;s/\t/\",\"/g;s/^/\"/;s/$/\"/;s/\n//g" > $2
echo "Written to $2"

从Save MySQL查询结果到一个文本或CSV文件:

SELECT order_id,product_name,qty
FROM orders
WHERE foo = 'bar'
INTO OUTFILE '/var/lib/mysql-files/orders.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';

注意:该语法可能需要重新排序

SELECT order_id,product_name,qty
INTO OUTFILE '/var/lib/mysql-files/orders.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
FROM orders
WHERE foo = 'bar';

在MySQL的最新版本。

使用此命令，将不会导出列名。

还要注意/var/lib/ MySQL -files/orders.csv将在运行MySQL的服务器上。MySQL进程运行所在的用户必须具有写入所选目录的权限，否则该命令将失败。

如果您想从远程服务器(特别是托管或虚拟机，如Heroku或Amazon RDS)向本地机器写入输出，则此解决方案不适合。

MySQL Workbench可以将记录集导出到CSV，而且它似乎可以很好地处理字段中的逗号。CSV可以在OpenOffice Calc中打开。