>  You can't put dot-commands on the command line.  Try:

I think you can with something like this (assuming your shell is bash):

echo $'.mode csv\nselect * from selected limit 4' | sqlite3 test.db


Pavel

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jay A. Kreibich <j...@kreibi.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:02:06AM -0700, Matt Young scratched on the wall:
>
>> sqlite3 test.db ".mode csv   select * from selected limit 4"
>>
>> Makes sqlite choke because I do not know what the inline terminator is
>> for a  text invocation argument,
>
>  You can't put dot-commands on the command line.  Try:
>
>  $ sqlite3 -csv test.db "select * from selected limit 4"
>
>> and can't find it in the docs.
>
>  $ sqlite3 --help
>
>
>   -j
>
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