q - Text as Dataq - Run SQL directly on CSV or TSV files¶ Overview¶ q's purpose is to bring SQL expressive power to the Linux command line by providing easy access to text as actual data, and allowing direct access to multi-file sqlite3 databases. q <flags> <sql-query> q allows the following: Performing SQL-like statements directly on tabular text data, auto-caching the data in order to accelerate additional quer
