You can extract table names and all the fields use linux command *SED*. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/sed-display-text/
sometime I used sed command to extract single database from multiple databases dump file. using sed to extract single database from the dumpfile: ========================================= sed -n '/^-- Current Database: `dbname`/,/^-- Current Database: `/p' dumpfile > dbname.sql 2>error Thanks, On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Fahim Mohammad <fahim...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have the following info in a text file called file.sql > Is there a way to extract table name and all the fields in this table. > > Thanks. > > Fahim > > > -- MySQL dump 10.11 > -- > -- Host: localhost Database: ailMel1 > -- ------------------------------------------------------ > -- Server version 5.0.67 > > /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */; > /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */; > /*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */; > /*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */; > /*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */; > /*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */; > /*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='' */; > /*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */; > > -- > -- Table structure for table `all_est` > -- > > DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `all_est`; > SET @saved_cs_client = @@character_set_client; > SET character_set_client = utf8; > CREATE TABLE `all_est` ( > `bin` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL, > `matches` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `misMatches` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `repMatches` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `nCount` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `qNumInsert` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `qBaseInsert` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `tNumInsert` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `tBaseInsert` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `strand` char(2) NOT NULL, > `qName` varchar(255) NOT NULL, > `qSize` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `qStart` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `qEnd` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `tName` varchar(255) NOT NULL, > `tSize` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `tStart` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `tEnd` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `blockCount` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, > `blockSizes` longblob NOT NULL, > `qStarts` longblob NOT NULL, > `tStarts` longblob NOT NULL, > KEY `tName` (`tName`(8),`bin`), > KEY `qName` (`qName`(12)) > ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; > SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client; > > /*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE=@OLD_TIME_ZONE */; > > /*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */; > /*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */; > /*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */; > /*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */; > /*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */; > > -- Dump completed on 2011-04-18 4:14:26 > -- Best Regards, Prabhat Kumar MySQL DBA My Blog: http://adminlinux.blogspot.com My LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/profileprabhat