textql

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Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV files.

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Examples (6)

Print the lines in the specified CSV file that match an SQL query to `stdout`

textql -sql "SELECT * FROM filename" path/to/filename.csv

Query a TSV file

textql -dlm=tab -sql "SELECT * FROM filename" path/to/filename.tsv

Query file with header row

textql -dlm=delimiter -header -sql "SELECT * FROM filename" path/to/filename.csv

Read data from `stdin`

cat path/to/file | textql -sql "SELECT * FROM stdin"

Join two files on a specified common column

textql -header -sql "SELECT * FROM path/to/file1 JOIN file2 ON path/to/file1.c1 = file2.c1 LIMIT 10" -output-header path/to/file1.csv path/to/file2.csv

Format output using an output delimiter with an output header line

textql -output-dlm=delimiter -output-header -sql "SELECT column AS alias FROM filename" path/to/filename.csv

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