Re: using the "copy from" command - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Knepper, Michelle
Subject Re: using the "copy from" command
Date
Msg-id 57E2A340D65EB240B071FEED12F4777B0794DE@merlin.intellidot.net
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In response to using the "copy from" command  ("Knepper, Michelle" <mknepper@intellidot.net>)
List pgsql-general
Yes, I tried using this:    tr -d '\r' < datafile
but it didn't get rid of all the other ascii stuff, of course, since I
only indicated '\r'.

Here's another linux command that I used to convert all of my files to
Unix,
instead of, converting them file by file, via EditPadPro:

  find . -name  "*.txt"  | xargs dos2unix

This converted all the .txt files, within the current directory.

Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Karl O. Pinc [mailto:kop@meme.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:44 PM
To: Knepper, Michelle
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] using the "copy from" command


FYI, you can feed the file through sed or tr.  The only wierd
thing is specifying a \r in shell.  I know that $'\r' will do
it in bash.  The commands may have an easier way...

On 2004.03.02 12:11 "Knepper, Michelle" wrote:
> Thanks Joe!
> I converted the text file to Unix, using EditPadPro, to get
> rid of all the Windows characters.  Got rid of any \r and end-of-line
> stuff.
> And the copy command worked beautifully.  It entered all of the data
> into the table.
>
> Simple thing to do, but new to me.
>
> Ciao. ;-)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Conway [mailto:mail@joeconway.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:28 PM
> To: Knepper, Michelle
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] using the "copy from" command
>
>
> Joe Conway wrote:
> > Knepper, Michelle wrote:
> >> medispan=# copy mmw_ade_com from
> >> '/home/mknepper/medispan/datafiles/mmwadecom.txt' with delimiter
> '|';
> >> ": can't parse "ne 1, pg_atoi: error in "14608
> >
> > Looks like bad data in line 14608. What does that line of your input
>
> > file look like?
>
> Strike that -- it actually is a problem in line 1, isn't it (you cut
> off
>
> the line number in the error message above)? It might be end-of-line
> character problem. Was your input file created or edited on Windows by
>
> chance (i.e. ends in \r\n instead of \n)?
>
> Joe
>
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