When developing you often have to import database dump from e.g. your production servers to debug some problems.
These sql dumps can get quite big and take a long time and much power to import. Depending on your application you can
skip some tables which you don't need for local development (like cache tables).
This tool will accept a list of table names and then strip the INSERT INTO lines from the dump before you load it
into MySQL.
Pipe an sql dump through sqlstrip and pipe it directly into mysql:
cat dump.sql | sqlstrip -table templatecache -table users | mysql dev_table
Of course you could also use > dump_small.sql to redirect the output into a new file.