diff --git a/pages/common/q.md b/pages/common/q.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c3ab89e0d --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/common/q.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# q + +> Execute SQL-like queries on .csv and .tsv files. + +- Query .csv file by specifying the delimeter as ',': + +`q -d',' "SELECT * from {{path/to/file}}"` + +- Query .tsv file: + +`q -t "SELECT * from {{path/to/file}}"` + +- Query file with header row: + +`q -d{{delimiter}} -H "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 delimeter 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{{delimiter}} -O "SELECT {{column}} as {{alias}} from {{path/to/file}}"`