diff --git a/sparql-anything-cli/src/main/java/io/github/sparqlanything/cli/CLI.java b/sparql-anything-cli/src/main/java/io/github/sparqlanything/cli/CLI.java
index 82d6b420..7941e279 100644
--- a/sparql-anything-cli/src/main/java/io/github/sparqlanything/cli/CLI.java
+++ b/sparql-anything-cli/src/main/java/io/github/sparqlanything/cli/CLI.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
@@ -87,11 +88,17 @@ public void parse(String[] args) throws ParseException {
 
 	public String getQuery() throws IOException {
 		String queryArgument = commandLine.getOptionValue(CLI.QUERY);
+		logger.trace("Parsing query argument {}", queryArgument);
 		try{
+			logger.trace("Trying interpreting as a URL...");
 			return IOUtils.toString(new URL(queryArgument).toURI(), Charset.defaultCharset());
 		} catch (MalformedURLException | URISyntaxException e) {
-			return queryArgument;
+			logger.trace("Trying interpreting as a file path...");
+			if(new File(queryArgument).exists())
+				return IOUtils.toString(new File(queryArgument).toURI(), Charset.defaultCharset());
 		}
+		logger.trace("Trying interpreting as a inline query...");
+		return queryArgument;
 	}
 	void init(){
 		this.options = new Options();
diff --git a/sparql-anything-cli/src/test/java/io/github/sparqlanything/cli/CLITest.java b/sparql-anything-cli/src/test/java/io/github/sparqlanything/cli/CLITest.java
index b2b7d348..85530dc2 100644
--- a/sparql-anything-cli/src/test/java/io/github/sparqlanything/cli/CLITest.java
+++ b/sparql-anything-cli/src/test/java/io/github/sparqlanything/cli/CLITest.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser;
 import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVRecord;
 import org.junit.Assert;
-import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.StringReader;
@@ -69,6 +68,14 @@ public void infileQueryWithValues() throws Exception {
 		query(new String[]{"-q", queryFile, "-v", "loc=" + f, "-f", "CSV"});
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void infileQueryWithValuesAndPath() throws Exception {
+		String f = Objects.requireNonNull(getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("books.xml")).toURI().toString();
+		String queryFile = Objects.requireNonNull(getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("CLITestOnFileQuery1.sparql")).getFile();
+		System.out.println(queryFile);
+		query(new String[]{"-q", queryFile, "-v", "loc=" + f, "-f", "CSV"});
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void infileQuery() throws Exception {
 		String f = Objects.requireNonNull(getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("books.xml")).toURI().toString();