Osquery uses basic SQL commands to leverage a relational data-model to describe a device.

osquery

Is there an easy way to add an arbitrary augeas path? Based on what I am seeing, I dont think there is.

No, you'd have to edit the lens files directly to add additional paths in current osquery.

Ideally, you'd be able to tell it which lens to use in the query.

Just trying to find an easy way to read an arbitrary file without the file carve

I don't think that is possible out of the box. There are extensions out there that do this. E.g. `file_lines` in <https://github.com/macadmins/osquery-extension>

was about to say the same ^^ file_lines, json_lines etc.

you sometimes can get lucky and abuse the `plist` table as afaik it is the only vanilla osquery table that reads files, but very unpredictable hack.