sas7bdat-cli 0.5.0

Fast command-line converter and inspector for SAS7BDAT files

sas7bdat-cli

A fast command-line tool for reading, inspecting, and converting SAS7BDAT files — the binary on-disk format produced by SAS. It is a self-contained Rust binary built on the SIMD-accelerated sas7bdat parser: no SAS installation, no ReadStat, no C toolchain.

Installation

pip install sas7bdat-cli
# or, without polluting an environment:
uv tool install sas7bdat-cli

The wheel ships a single executable, sas7bdat. It is a plain binary wheel (py3-none-<platform>), so it has no Python version floor and pulls in no dependencies — Python is only the delivery mechanism.

Rust users can install the same tool from source instead:

cargo install --git https://github.com/tkragholm/sas7bdat-parser-rs sas7bdat-cli

Usage

sas7bdat info data.sas7bdat        # columns, types, labels, and a sample
sas7bdat head data.sas7bdat        # first rows as a table
sas7bdat convert data.sas7bdat     # -> data.parquet (Zstd)
sas7bdat convert data.sas7bdat --out out.csv        # format inferred from the extension
sas7bdat convert ./folder --out-dir out             # whole tree, mirrored
sas7bdat completions zsh           # shell completion script

Run sas7bdat <command> --help for the full options of a command.

Related packages

• sas7bdat-polars — a Polars IO plugin backed by the same parser, with lazy scans plus projection and predicate pushdown. pip install "sas7bdat-polars[cli]" installs it together with this CLI.
• sas7bdat — the underlying Rust crate.

License

MIT. See the repository for third-party notices and the SAS trademark note.