Not much of a post here, just recording a good way to automatically run queries in the presto cli.

./presto-cli-350-executable.jar \
      --server https://your.cluster.dns:443 \
      --catalog hive \
      --schema default \
      --client-request-timeout "10s" \
      --user "john.humphreys" \
      --password \
      --execute "select * from some_db.some_table limit 10"

If you need the password as well, you can pipe it into the command with the yes command in Linux. I also suspect there is an environment variable you can pre-set for that, but I didn’t dig in to double check.