Install Google BigQuery - Command Line Tool

Google BigQuery can also be accessed from command line. To achieve this one need to implement below steps:

1. Install Google cloud using, gcloud install by opening the terminal
2. Check python version -- type python -version
3. Run apt-get install python-setuptools
4. Check if pip is installed, If not found, sudo easy_install pip
5. Install google client tools for python using, pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client .

If not installed try the following commands (only for Mac users)

1. Enter the following at a command prompt:
2. $ curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash
3. Restart your shell:
4. $ exec -l $SHELL
5. Run gcloud init to initialize the gcloud environment:
6. $ gcloud init

6. Initialise gcloud using , gcloud init

7. Check big query using bq command, bq ls