From the course: Intro to Snowflake for Devs, Data Scientists, Data Engineers

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Snowflake CLI

Snowflake CLI

- All right, time to get real. There are a few moments where I feel more legit as a developer than when I open up my terminal and start doing stuff. You might think less of me, because of this confession, but I even feel cool when I'm just using the command line to change directories and list the files in those directories and maybe delete a file or two. You know, sprinkle a little rm here and there. I certainly feel cool when I'm using the terminal to make Git commits or clone Git repos, and if I successfully use Git rebase, I feel like I'm basically the next Neo from "The Matrix." So with all of that said, I'm feeling very legit that we're about to use Snowflake's command line interface, which I'll refer to as the Snowflake CLI from here on out. To find out why this is useful and what it lets you do, let's jump into our terminal. I do that by typing Command + Space on my Mac and then typing in terminal in the search bar. I want to use the Snowflake CLI's help command, in a sort of…

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