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+#!/software/bin/perl -w
+##########################################
+#
+# Simple but handy script that generate the input file
+# neded by the script CopyDBoverServer.pl
+#
+# Benoit Ballester <benoit@ebi.ac.uk>
+#
+# Please post comments/questions to the Ensembl development list
+# <ensembl-dev@ebi.ac.uk>
+#
+#########################################
+use strict;
+use DBI;
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+my $help= 0;
+my $sourceHost="ens-staging";
+my $sourcePort="3306";
+my $sourceUser="";
+my $sourcePwd="";
+my $destinationHost="mart2";
+my $destinationPort="3306";
+my $limit='';
+
+my $usage = "\nUsage: $0 -sourceHost mart1 -sourceUser xxx -destinationHost mart2  -limit %42%\n
+  -help or -h      [for help]
+
+  -sourceHost      [default: ens-staging]
+  -sourcePort      [default: 3306       ]
+  -sourceUser      [default:            ]
+  -destinationHost [default: mart2      ]
+  -destinationPort [default: 3306       ]
+  -limit           [eg. %core_42%       ]\n
+
+The limit option will limit the databases being copied according to your limit criteria. 
+With   -limit %core_42%   only ensembl core 42 databases will be copied\n\n
+";
+
+GetOptions('help|h' => \$help,
+			 'sourceHost=s' => \$sourceHost,
+			 'sourcePort=s' => \$sourcePort,
+			 'sourceUser=s' => \$sourceUser,
+			 'sourcePwd=s' => \$sourcePwd,
+			 'destinationHost=s' => \$destinationHost,
+			 'destinationPort=s' => \$destinationPort,
+			 'limit=s' => \$limit);
+
+if ($help || scalar @ARGV == 0 ) {
+#if ($help) {
+    print $usage;
+  exit 0;
+}
+#--------------connect to MySQL Source Host
+my $dbh   = DBI->connect ("DBI:mysql:host=$sourceHost:port=$sourcePort",
+                          $sourceUser,
+                          $sourcePwd)
+    or die "Can\'t connect to database: $DBI::errstr\n";
+
+#--------------prepare and execute the query
+my $sql;
+if (!$limit){
+    $sql = "show databases ;";
+}else {
+    $sql = "show databases like \"".$limit."\" ;";
+}
+
+my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql);
+
+$sth->execute( );
+while ( my @row = $sth->fetchrow ){
+    
+    my $result = sprintf ("%s %d %50s %s %d %s",$sourceHost.".internal.sanger.ac.uk", $sourcePort, $row[0], $destinationHost.".internal.sanger.ac.uk ", $destinationPort, $row[0]);
+    
+    print $result . "\n";
+    
+}
+
+$sth->finish( );