From the cli page, it mentions that you can skip the header row by using the option --skip 1. However, I have not been able to make it work. Can you give an example or syntax of using that option?

Study this session scrape:

```
sqlite> create table Pets (name text, species text);
sqlite> insert into Pets values('Fido', 'dog');
sqlite> insert into Pets values('Fluffy', 'cat');
sqlite> insert into Pets values('Hiss', 'serpent');
sqlite> .mode csv
sqlite> .header on
sqlite> .once pets.csv
sqlite> select * from Pets;
sqlite> create table Beasts (name text, species text);
sqlite> .import --csv --skip 1 pets.csv Beasts
sqlite> select * from Beasts;
name,species
Fido,dog
Fluffy,cat
Hiss,serpent
sqlite>
```

Unrelated to the original question:  

I guess the “--csv” option is something new?  Maybe it overrides the current mode?  Where is that documented?

It should be documented in the [CLI Shell docs](https://sqlite.org/cli.html), but is not.  Because ".mode csv" had already been entered in the session I showed, that option was not necessary.  But if you had not set the CSV mode before the import, that --csv option makes it happen during the import.

You can see its effect mentioned in the CLI shell by entering:

```
.help import
```

or

```
.help -all
```

, (and scrolling back for the latter unless you have a huge monitor and a tiny font.)

To import a file without headers you must have your table already created.  Is that what you tried ?  If so, describe what's going wrong.