Question

I know how to select which table I want to dump in SQL format with the shell command:
$ ./sqlite3 test.db ‘.dump mytable’ > test.sql
But this command selects all the data of “mytable”

Can I select the data in my table that I want before dump and how?
In other terms I seek a command like :
$ ./sqlite3 test.db ‘.dump select name from mytable’ > test.sql
Obviously this command does not work :'(

Answer 1

The only way to do it within the sqlite console is to create a temporary table:

CREATE TABLE tmp AS SELECT (field1, field2 ... ) FROM yourTable WHERE ... ;
.dump tmp
DROP TABLE tmp