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**To filter the contents of an Amazon S3 object based on an SQL statement**
The following ``select-object-content`` example filters the object ``my-data-file.csv`` with the specified SQL statement and sends output to a file. ::
aws s3api select-object-content \
--bucket my-bucket \
--key my-data-file.csv \
--expression "select * from s3object limit 100" \
--expression-type 'SQL' \
--input-serialization '{"CSV": {}, "CompressionType": "NONE"}' \
--output-serialization '{"CSV": {}}' "output.csv"
This command produces no output.