Jeff Frost wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Josh Williams wrote:
>
>> From: Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
>>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Richard Ray wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> That's definitely part of it. I'm assuming the above is an abridged
>> example and the OP is doing something dynamic with the query. The
>> real trouble is Bash likes to expand the asterisk into a list of every
>> file in the current directory when you try to push the command through
>> a variable. So it's just a matter of finding a way to escape the *
Oh, good grief Charlie Brown:
backslash it:
\*
so:echo select \* from whatsit | psql test
>> character to keep Bash from globbing, which unfortunately right now is
>> escaping me (no pun intended.)
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