IQUERY(1)

📦 version 5.0.2, in nixos 26.05

🎀 IQUERY(1) 🎀

okay so real talk, bestie — this is iquery, and it lives in section 1 of the manual, aka User Commands. It's an iRODS iCommand and it's genuinely about to make your catalog-questioning era iconic. Let's go 💅

✨ NAME ✨

iquery — an iRODS iCommand 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

iquery [OPTION]... QUERY_STRING

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

iquery — Query the iRODS Catalog. Periodt.

So here's the vibe: you query the iRODS Catalog using GenQuery2 ✨.

QUERY_STRING is expected to be a string matching the GenQuery2 syntax. Failing to meet this requirement will result in an error. like, it's not gonna be cute about it 😭

If QUERY_STRING is a hyphen (-) or is empty, input is read from stdin. Input taken via stdin will be viewed as the QUERY_STRING to execute. For example:

echo select COLL_NAME, DATA_NAME | iquery

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. no shortcuts on the shortcuts, iykyk 🫶

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • -c, --columns — List columns supported by GenQuery2. literally the cheat sheet, use it 👑
  • --sql-only — Print the SQL generated by the parser. The generated SQL will not be executed — so it's giving "look, don't touch" 🙈
  • -z, --zone=ZONE_NAME — The name of the zone to run the query against. Defaults to the local zone. 🌈
  • -h, --help — Display this help message and exit. the classic, the icon, the main character 💀

and then the version banner itself shows up like:

iRODS Version 5.0.2                iquery (experimental)
heads up bestie — it says (experimental) right there in the banner, so go forth with that knowledge 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

(no see-also refs in this one — we out here solo 💜)

okay that's the whole page, no notes ✨ one last thing: this beauty is signed iquery iRODS-5.0.2 and dated January 1980 (yes, really, the icon has been iconic since the 80s 🎀). bye bestie, go slay your catalog query 💅🦋

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