[role="xpack"]
[[sql-cli]]
== SQL CLI

X-Pack ships with a script to run the SQL CLI in its bin directory:

[source,bash]
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$ ./bin/x-pack/sql-cli
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The jar containing the SQL CLI is a stand alone Java application and
the scripts just launch it. You can move it around to other machines
without having to install Elasticsearch or X-Pack on them.

You can pass the URL of the Elasticsearch instance to connect to as
the first parameter:

[source,bash]
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$ ./bin/x-pack/sql-cli https://some.server:9200
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Once the CLI is running you can use any <<sql-spec,query>> that
Elasticsearch supports:

[source,sqlcli]
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sql> SELECT * FROM library WHERE page_count > 500 ORDER BY page_count DESC;
     author      |        name        |  page_count   | release_date
-----------------+--------------------+---------------+---------------
Peter F. Hamilton|Pandora's Star      |768            |1078185600000
Vernor Vinge     |A Fire Upon the Deep|613            |707356800000
Frank Herbert    |Dune                |604            |-144720000000
Alastair Reynolds|Revelation Space    |585            |953078400000
James S.A. Corey |Leviathan Wakes     |561            |1306972800000
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// TODO it'd be lovely to be able to assert that this is correct but
// that is probably more work then it is worth right now.