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export

Syntax

    dataset export COLLECTION_NAME FRAME_NAME [CSV_FILENAME]
    dataset export COLLECTION_NAME FRAME_NAME GSHEET_ID GSHEET_NAME [CELL_RANGE]

Description

export will render the contents of a collection as a CSV file or export to a Google Sheet based on a frame defined in the collection.

Usage

In the following examples we will be using a newly defined “frame” named “my-report”. The frame will have the following fields are being exported - ._Key,.title, and .pubDate with the following labels for those fields – id, title and publication date.

    dataset frame publications.ds my-report "._Key" ".title" ".pubDate"
    dataset frame-labels publications.ds my-report "id" "title" "publication date"

The example blow creates a CSV file named ‘output.csv’. The collection is “publications.ds”.

	dataset export publications.ds my-report > output.csv

Related topics: import-csv, import-gsheets, export-gsheets