Google Bigquery BQ command line execute query from a file

Question

I use the bq command line tool to run queries, e.g:

bq query "select * from table"

What if I store the query in a file

Answer 1

The other answers seem to be either outdated or needlessly brittle. As of 2019, bq query reads from stdin, so you can just redirect your file into it:

bq query < myfile.sql

Query parameters are passed like this:

bq query --parameter name:type:value < myfile.sql