I'm a newbie trying to follow a tutorial. The tutorial says to type:

mysql employees <employee.dat

I already am at my mysql prompt in Terminal. I have employees as the open
database. I have employee_data as an existing table with 1 manually entered
record. I have employee.dat as a text file with lines such as:

INSERT INTO employee_data (f_name, l_name, title, age, yos, salary, perks,
email) values ("Mary", "Anchor", "Web Designer", 26, 2, 85000, 15000,
"ma...@bignet.com");

I see an 'employees' locked folder in /Library/MySQL/var/

Where should this text file be placed such that the command will work and import
the records as the tutorial is trying to get me to do?

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