How do I split the output from mysqldump into smaller files?

Question

I need to move entire tables from one MySQL database to another. I don\'t have full access to the second one, only phpMyAdmin access. I can only upload (compressed) sql file

Answer 1

You can split existent file by AWK. It's very quik and simple

Let's split table dump by 'tables' :

cat dump.sql | awk 'BEGIN {output = "comments"; }
$data ~ /^CREATE TABLE/ {close(output); output = substr($3,2,length($3)-2); }
{ print $data >> output }';

Or you can split dump by 'database'

cat backup.sql | awk 'BEGIN {output="comments";} $data ~ /Current Database/ {close(output);output=$4;} {print $data>>output}';