How to retrieve master log position and master log file in shell script I'm writing a shell script for point in time recovery for MySQL database.For the below statement I need to specify the start position and end position of a log file. 

mysqlbinlog --start-position=368315 --stop-position=368316 /usr/local/mysql/data/mysql-bin.123456


How can I retrieve the log position and log file.
There is a cleaner approach

SMS=/tmp/show_master_status.txt
mysql -ANe "SHOW MASTER STATUS" &gt; ${SMS}
CURRENT_LOG=`cat ${SMS} | awk '{print $1}'`
CURRENT_POS=`cat ${SMS} | awk '{print $2}'`
echo ${CURRENT_LOG} ${CURRENT_POS}


This logs into mysql only once.