open for filesystem

Signature

> open {flags} (filename) ...rest

Flags

• --raw, -r: open file as raw binary

Parameters

• filename: the filename to use
• ...rest: optional additional files to open

Input/output types:

Examples

Open a file, with structure (based on file extension or SQLite database header)

>openmyfile.json

Open a file, as raw bytes

>openmyfile.json--raw

Open a file, using the input to get filename

>'myfile.txt'|open

Open a file, and decode it by the specified encoding

>openmyfile.txt--raw|decodeutf-8

Create a custom from parser to open newline-delimited JSON files with open

>def"from ndjson" [] { from json-o };openmyfile.ndjson

Notes

Support to automatically parse files with an extension .xyz can be provided by a from xyz command in scope.