On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 16:03, Dominique Devienne <ddevie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:43 PM Clemens Ladisch <clem...@ladisch.de> > wrote: > > > Peng Yu wrote: > > > Is there a better way to just return an exit status of 0 for > > > a sqlite3 DB file and 1 otherwise? > > > > Extract the magic header string from a known DB file: > > > > dd bs=16 count=1 < some.db > sqlite3-signature > > > > Then you can compare it against the beginning of the file: > > > > cmp --bytes=16 sqlite3-signature /tmp/tmp.erZ5aS6PUX.sqa > /dev/null > > [ $? = 0 ] && echo SQLite DB > > > I'm actually surprised sqlite3[.exe] itself doesn't have a more to do that. > I tried using it to open a non-DB file, and it opens in interactive mode, > with > no error or warning, wether I use -bail or not. I was expecting a hard > error. > As usual, sqlite doesn't touch the DB file until it is asked to. Try "sqlite3 FILENAME 'pragma schema_version'" on some random file and you'll get "Error: file is encrypted or is not a database". But note that trying the same on a non-existent file will succeed, and additionally create an empty file. Technically from sqlite's perspective a non-existent or empty file is a perfectly well-formed database, just one which happens to contain no data. > You'd think sqlite3[.exe] is the best suited to figure out if a file is a > valie SQLite database or not, > It still is: sqlite3 FILENAME 'pragma integrity_check' Parsing the header doesn't tell you whether the DB is valid, but if that's all you want to do I suggest the ubiquitous file(1) command which reports "SQLite 3.x database" for a [non-empty] sqlite db file. -Rowan _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
