How to generate history.N.sql files using a Chromium build.

On a Linux build:

1. Build the sqlite_shell target. This will build the SQLite CLI.

    $ ninja sqlite_shell
   

2. Run Chrome/Chromium with a fresh profile directory and immediately quit. It doesn‘t really matter how long you run it, but there’ll be less work for you if you quit early.

    $ out/Debug/chrome-wrapper --user-data-dir=foo
   

3. Locate the History file in the profile directory.

4. Dump the History database into a text file:

    $ echo '.dump' | sqlite_shell foo/Default/History > history.sql
   

5. Manually remove all INSERT INTO statements other than the statements populating the meta table.