Exit a SQLite 3 database
SqliteSqlite Problem Overview
I have an SQLite 3 database in SUSE Linux.
It's stuck at the command prompt like so:
sqlite> q
...> exit
...> .exit
...> quit
...> .quit
How do I exit out of the database?
Sqlite Solutions
Solution 1 - Sqlite
Type ; + Enter to terminate the current statement (will give an error message because what you typed so far is not a valid statement but never mind). Then .quit
+ Enter.
Note that in SQLite 3, SQL statements must be terminated with a delimiter, which is ;
by default. The non-SQL commands, which start with a .
, do not need to be terminated this way, but they are considered complete as soon as Enter is pressed.
If a command does not start with a .
and Enter is pressed without the SQL termination character, the CLI client displays the "continuation prompt" (...>
in your case) and expects the SQL command to be continued on the following line(s) until it is properly terminated.
See also Command Line Shell For SQLite.
Solution 2 - Sqlite
Ctrl + D will get you out of the SQLite 3 database command prompt.
That is: hold the "Ctrl" button then press the lowercase d key on your keyboard at the same time and you will escape the SQLite 3 command prompt.
Solution 3 - Sqlite
You have entered multiline command input. To exit the command multiline input use a semicaolon (;
) to complete your command. And then use .exit
to exit from sqlite commandline or continue with what you want to do.
sqlite>
sqlite> cd
...>
...> .exit
...> .exit
...> exit()
...> ; # This semicolon completes the incomplete cd command
Error: near "cd": syntax error
sqlite> .exit
Solution 4 - Sqlite
You can terminate the SQLite 3 program by typing your system's end-of-file character (usually a Ctrl + D). Use the interrupt character (usually a Ctrl + C) to stop a long-running SQL statement.
Solution 5 - Sqlite
For the Windows command prompt, pressing Ctrl + Z and then pressing Enter worked for me. It directly brought me out of the sqlite>
prompt.
If you want to stay at the sqlite>
prompt, but just come out of the inner prompt, ...>
, then as JimmyB has said, type ; and press Enter. It just completes your statement, the prompt ...>
shows it is expecting more in the statement so far typed, as SQLite statements always end with a semicolon.
Solution 6 - Sqlite
To see all SQLite commands in the SQLite prompt, use the .help
command. Before stucking at the command prompt, you can use the .exit
command.