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grep and delete sqlite tables

Author:
kifkif
Posted:
December 7, 2009
Language:
SQL
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This is a slight improvment of a previous snippet of mine: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1776/

It is an interactive shell script that greps and deletes sqlite tables

USAGE: ./pdrop.sh myquery mydbfile

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#! /bin/sh

QUERY=$1
TABLE=$2

echo -e "Here is your statement:\n"

CMD="BEGIN;\n"
CMD=$CMD`echo '.tables' | sqlite3 $TABLE | tr ' ' '\n' | grep $QUERY | sed 's/^/DROP TABLE /g' | sed 's/$/;/g'`
CMD=$CMD"\nCOMMIT;"

echo -e "$CMD\n"

echo -n "Do you want to commit this statement? (Y/N) "
read -e ANSWER

if test "$ANSWER" = "Y"; then
    echo -e "$CMD" | sqlite3 $TABLE
    echo "Done!"
else
    echo "Nothing changed, have a good day."
fi

exit

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