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About dbt seed command

The dbt seed command will load csv files located in the seed-paths directory of your dbt project into your data warehouse.

Selecting seeds to run

Specific seeds can be run using the --select flag to dbt seed. Example:

$ dbt seed --select "country_codes"
Found 2 models, 3 tests, 0 archives, 0 analyses, 53 macros, 0 operations, 2 seed files

14:46:15 | Concurrency: 1 threads (target='dev')
14:46:15 |
14:46:15 | 1 of 1 START seed file analytics.country_codes........................... [RUN]
14:46:15 | 1 of 1 OK loaded seed file analytics.country_codes....................... [INSERT 3 in 0.01s]
14:46:16 |
14:46:16 | Finished running 1 seed in 0.14s.

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