On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 17:18:16 +0100
"Domingo Alvarez Duarte" <sqlite-mail at dev.dadbiz.es> wrote:
> Why not have direct command ".export table_name" and internally it
> does all commands you mention in one go, simple and intuitively.
Importing has unique requirements.
.import filename tablename
is quite limited, but necessary: SQL has no "read from file" feature.
You could have
.export filename tablename
but SQL already has a "read from table" feature, and shell already has
a "write to file" feature. So an export command would be a redundant
subset of what's already available.
--jkl
