---
name: "relational-cli"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "relational-cli"
version: "3.3-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/relational-cli"
---

# relational-cli(1)

Implementation of Relational algebra.

## NAME

relational-cli — Implementation of Relational algebra.

## SYNOPSIS

**relational-cli** \[OPTIONS\] \[ FILE ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

This program provides a command line interface to execute relational algebra queries. It is meant to experiment with relational algebra queries.

## SCRIPTING

The tool always runs in interactive mode, but it is possible to write a sequence of queries in a script and run it.

relational-cli \< script.txt

The result of all the lines that do not terminate with a \`;' are printed.

Comments are lines beginning with \`;'.

Whenever stdin or stdout are not a terminal, silent mode will be used, which prints less debug information, to avoid cluttering.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **-v**

  Show version information and exit.

- **-h**

  Shows help and exit.

- **-q**

  Uses the Qt5 GUI.

- **-r**

  Uses the readline UI (default).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli \<tiposchi@tiscali.it\> for the **Debian GNU/Linux** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.