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

The SQL CLI is a stand alone Java application for quick interaction
with X-Pack SQL. You can run it like this:

["source","bash",subs="attributes,callouts"]
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$ java -jar cli-{version}.jar
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You can pass the URL of the Elasticsearch instance to connect to as
the first parameter:

["source","bash",subs="attributes,callouts"]
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$ java -jar cli-{version}.jar https://some.server:9200
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The cli jar is entirely stand alone and can be moved whereever it is
needed.

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
----------------------------+-----------------------+---------------
Victor Hugo                 |Les Misérables         |1463
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra|Don Quixote            |1072
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra|Don Quixote            |1072
Herman Melville             |Moby-Dick or, The Whale|720
Charles Dickens             |Oliver Twist           |608
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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.