Install the CQL shell

Install a standalone CQL shell (cqlsh) using a binary tarball on any Linux-based platform. This allows you to issue Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh commands remotely to a DSE cluster.

You don’t need to run cqlsh locally on the cluster node.

For more information, see Connect to DSE with the CQL shell (cqlsh).

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