q Command Examples

Execute SQL-like queries on CSV and TSV files. More information: https://harelba.github.io/q.

• Query a CSV file by specifying the delimiter as ',':

q {{[-d|--delimiter]}} ',' "SELECT * from {{path/to/file}}"

• Query a TSV file:

q {{[-t|--tab-delimited]}} "SELECT * from {{path/to/file}}"

• Query file with header row:

q {{[-d|--delimiter]}} {{delimiter}} {{[-H|--skip-header]}} "SELECT * from {{path/to/file}}"

• Read data from stdin; '-' in the query represents the data from stdin:

{{output}} | q "select * from -"

• Join two files (aliased as f1 and f2 in the example) on column c1, a common column:

q "SELECT * FROM {{path/to/file}} f1 JOIN {{path/to/other_file}} f2 ON (f1.c1 = f2.c1)"

• Format output using an output delimiter with an output header line (Note: command will output column names based on the input file header or the column aliases overridden in the query):

q {{[-D|--output-delimiter]}} {{delimiter}} {{[-O|--output-header]}} "SELECT {{column}} as {{alias}} from {{path/to/file}}"