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Applying SQL to a local CSV file

Sometimes the data manipulation we want to do is just easier to do with SQL. In this situation, we want to find the shortest duration song in Spotify_MusicAttributes.csv by applying the SQL below directly to the data file.

SELECT * FROM Spotify_MusicAttributes ORDER BY duration_ms LIMIT 1

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This exercise is part of the course

Data Processing in Shell

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Preview CSV file
ls

# Apply SQL query to Spotify_MusicAttributes.csv
___ --___ "SELECT * FROM Spotify_MusicAttributes ORDER BY duration_ms LIMIT 1" ___.csv
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