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Exercise

Cleaner scripting via shell variables

Because SQL queries, by nature, can be long and complex, we will frequently need to deal with line breaks while passing in SQL queries to csvkit commands.

One way to work around this is to store the SQL queries as a shell variable, then pass in the shell variable in place of the SQL query where needed.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Fill in the csvsql command by calling upon the bash variable containing the SQL query instead of writing out the SQL query in full.