'<' operator is reserved PowerShell Error

Question

I am trying to use mysql -u root -p Tutorials < tut_backup.sql in PowerShell to restore a table in a MySQL DB but it's giving me The '<' operator is reserved for future use. error. Is there a roundabout way?

Answer 1

How about

& cmd.exe /c "mysql -u root -p Tutorials < tut_backup.sql" 

Answer 2

You can pipe in the contents like so:

Get-Content tut_backup.sql | mysql -u root -p Tutorials