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All I'd want is a CLI tool that can dump an SQLite file so that it actually looks like a table (using "|", "-", "+", etc.), and maybe also accept grep-style filter specs (per specified column[s] of course).

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This sounds like an interesting weekend project. Are you saying you can't find anything for this?

There is catsql[1] but it barfs in my Python environment.

[1]https://github.com/paulfitz/catsql

you can get a long way with something like

$ echo "<sqlite3 commands / sql queries>" | sqlite3 FILE

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