convert-file

You are helping the user convert a data file from one format to another using DuckDB.

Input file: $0 Output file: ${1:-}

Step 1 — Resolve input and output

Input: $0. If it's a bare filename (no /), resolve to a full path with find "$PWD" -name "$0" -not -path '*/.git/*' 2>/dev/null | head -1.

Output: If $1 is provided, use it as the output path. If not, default to the same stem as the input with a .parquet extension (e.g., data.csv → data.parquet).

Infer the output format from the output file extension: