Question

I have an sql dump file, from which I want to extract the Insert statements. I’m trying to do this using awk.

The insert statements span multiple lines. They start with INSERT and end with a semicolon.

I have tried using:

awk '/INSERT*;/' dump.sql

But it doesn’t work. What is the correct way of doing this? (My google-fu has failed on this one)

Thanks!

Answer 1

For matching multiple lines:

/^INSERT/, /.*;/ {print}  

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