How do I delete a table from a mysqldump

Question

How do I delete the output for one big table inside a mysqldump with lots of tables in it?

I have a dump of a database that is 6 GB large, but 90% of it is only one logg

Answer 1

You could use 'n,n d' to remove certain lines. I guess in your case you do want to have the table in question, but don't want the data?

Change the grep command to include "Dumping data for table":

grep -n 'Table structure\|Dumping data for table' dump.sql 
19:-- Table structure for table `t1`
37:-- Dumping data for table `t1`
47:-- Table structure for table `t2`
66:-- Dumping data for table `t2`
76:-- Table structure for table `t3`
96:-- Dumping data for table `t3`

Now, if you don't want the data for t2, you could use:

sed '66,75 d' dump.sql > cleandump.sql