Running a Sqlite3 Script from Command Line

The parameter you give to the sqlite3 program is the database file name.

To execute commands from a file, you must redirect the input to that file:

$ sqlite3 mydatabase.db < SQLTableTransfer

or tell it to read from that file:

$ sqlite3 mydatabase.db ".read SQLTableTransfer"

You can get a list of the spatial tables as follows:

echo "SELECT f_table_name FROM geometry_columns;" | spatialite -noheader -silent your_db.sqlite

For the lazy who want to just dump this into their .bashrc:

### Execute an sqlite3 file on a given db
sql3-exec () {
  # TODO: write a  --help flag that doubles as error handling
  # TODO: Ensure that $1 is a db; Else display --help
  # TODO: Ensure that $2 is a .sql file; Else display --help
  # TODO: Probably store a backup (or at least a flag)...
  sqlite3 $1 ".read $2"
  true
}