Export a MySQL Database to SQLite Database

Question

Please help me with exporting a MySQL database into a SQLite database.

Answer 1

The answer by @user2111698 edited by @quassy works as promised. Since I do this frequently I put their instructions into a bash script:

#!/bin/bash

mysql_host=localhost
mysql_user=george
mysql_dbname=database
sqlite3_dbname=database.sqlite3

# dump the mysql database to a txt file
mysqldump \
  --skip-create-options \
  --compatible=ansi \
  --skip-extended-insert \
  --compact \
  --single-transaction \
  -h$mysql_host \
  -u$mysql_user \
  -p $mysql_dbname \
  > /tmp/localdb.txt

# remove lines mentioning "PRIMARY KEY" or "KEY"
cat /tmp/localdb.txt \
  | grep -v "PRIMARY KEY" \
  | grep -v KEY \
  > /tmp/localdb.txt.1

# mysqldump leaves trailing commas before closing parentheses  
perl -0pe 's/,\n\)/\)/g' /tmp/localdb.txt.1 > /tmp/localdb.txt.2

# change all \' to ''
sed -e 's/\\'\''/'\'''\''/g' /tmp/localdb.txt.2 > /tmp/localdb.txt.3

if [ -e $sqlite3_dbname ]; then
    mv $sqlite3_dbname $sqlite3_dbname.bak
fi
sqlite3 $sqlite3_dbname < /tmp/localdb.txt.3

A gist with detailed comments can be found at https://gist.github.com/grfiv/b79ace3656113bcfbd9b7c7da8e9ae8d