Re: Copy entire file as one field - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 00:40, Warren Massengill wrote:
> How can I copy several hundred small text files into a database, each file
> going into a field called 'message' and becomming one record (with or
> without other fields) using psql?

A bit of shell scripting:

for f in `ls small_file*`
do
    psql -d mydatabase -c "INSERT INTO mytable (message)
                 VALUES ('`cat $f`')"
done


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