The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, G. Anthony Reina wrote:
>
> > Again, the text file is over 2 Gig so I can't seem to find an editor that is
> > big enough to hold it all in memory (I only have a half a gig of RAM). So it
> > really is just guesswork. Anything you can think of to strip the data from
> > this big of a file?
>
> egrep "^CREATE|^COPY" <filename> ?
Nay,we have currently nice multi-line CREATEs.
the following python script should to work
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#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
in_data = 0
while 1: line = sys.stdin.readline() if not line: break if line[:5] == 'COPY ': in_data = 1 if not
in_data:sys.stdout.write(line) if in_data and line[:2] == '\\.': in_data = 0
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as you can probably guess it is used as
stripdata.py <withdata.sql >withoutdata.sql
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Hannu