Let's take a tour through the Qri Command line client.
First, you'll need the latest CLI binary. head over to our releases page and install the binary somewhere on your $PATH. You should be able to type qri help and see a nice introductory message.
Qri will ask you to pick a peername, this is your "handle" on qri. If you don't want to choose one, just hit enter & Qri will use the random peername shown to you in the prompt. Changing your peername is a bit of a pain, so it's worth taking the time now to find one that works for you.
Now let's get our first dataset. We'll start by searching Qri for published datasets we can use.
Your results may vary, but let's use this world bank population dataset as an example. To get this dataset onto your computer, add it by referring to it's name: 'b5/world_bank_population'.
Voila! you now have a world bank population dataset on your computer. All steps after this will operate on data stored locally in your Qri repository.
get is Qri's tool for inspecting datasets from the command line. Next let's look at how to get data out of qri for use elsewhere.
Let's put that data in a form we can use somewhere else, starting by just getting the "body" csv file. Exporting individual components of a dataset again, just uses get. Here we write the output to a file called world_bank_pop.csv.