The last time I did this, I munged the MySQL SQL statements so I could load the (relevant) tables into an SQLite database. There, I updated the columns that needed masking, and then wrote the data out again as SQL statements.

I think my approach back then was basically to apply a set of regular expressions to convert the multiple values within (...),(...) into separate INSERT statements and then use the sqlite3 tool to load that file.

Doing the manipulation on the SQL text directly was my first approach but I discarded it once I realized I wanted to do more stuff than just masking out passwords.

In reply to Re: Masking data in a MySQL dump file. Ideas? by Corion
in thread Masking data in a MySQL dump file. Ideas? by dliakh

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