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### Run external commands from the SQL shell

In this example, we use `\!` to look at the rows in a csv file before creating a table and then using `\|` to insert those rows into the table.
In this example, we use `\!` to look at the rows in a CSV file before creating a table and then using `\|` to insert those rows into the table.

{{site.data.alerts.callout_info}}This example works only if the values in the CSV file are numbers. For values in other formats, use an online CSV-to-SQL converter or make your own import program.{{site.data.alerts.end}}

~~~ sql
> \! cat test.csv
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