In a recent discussion, a useful command line pipeline was shared for querying a database and processing the results. The original command looked like this:
echo "SELECT * FROM vals WHERE lower(name) LIKE '%feed%' and lower(name) like '%email%' LIMIT 100" | jq -R '{args: [.]} ' | xargs -0 -I {} curl -X POST "https://sqlite-execute.web.val.run" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d {} | yq -P
This command effectively queries a database for records matching certain criteria and processes the results. However, there are several ways this pipeline can be improved for efficiency and clarity.