Splitting up a huge file on one line with sed

Mikkel Meyer Andersen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:59:16 +0000

Sometimes when I export MySQL to files, I end up having one huge query on one line. It can be quite annoying! I’d rather want it on several lines; in that way it easier to just copy out a fragment of the query. And it also seems that some editors handle several lines better than one huge. Well, in this case my line looked like this:

INSERT INTO TABLE VALUES (...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...),(...);

With this sed-command, every entry got its own line:

sed s/\),\(/\),\\n\(/g export.sql > one-per-line.sql

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Splitting up a huge file on one line with sed