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title: Unloading Data Using COPY
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`COPY TO` copies data from a table to a file (or standard input) on the HAWQ master host using a single process on the HAWQ master instance. Use `COPY` to output a table's entire contents, or filter the output using a `SELECT` statement. For example:

``` sql
COPY (SELECT * FROM country WHERE country_name LIKE 'A%') 
TO '/home/gpadmin/a_list_countries.out';
```