Question

I can do the following to search a file to find SQL INSERT statements:

$ cat my_sql_file.sql | grep INSERT

but I want to narrow down the search to find the the unique tables that the SQL dump is inserting into.

EDIT: I also don’t want the results sorted. I just want the results in the exact order that grep found them in :).

How can you do this?

Many thanks :).

Answer 1

you can use grep, awk and sort to do this. Supposing the sql for the insert is something like this:

“Insert into tablename …… ”

you can do:

grep -i insert | awk '{print $3}' | sort -u