Matt Might wrote a blog post about using standard CLI tools for this purpose: http://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/ http://matt.might.net/articles/sq

Matt Might wrote a blog post about using standard CLI tools for this purpose: http://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/ http://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/ Rather than making a custom tool to issue SQL, the idea is that regular CLI tools map well to the traditional relational algebra operations. sed is like selection, cat is like union, etc.