Susan Hurst <susan.hurst@brookhurstdata.com> writes:
> Why would a psql statement insert a leading space into the output,
> which is a single integer value?
>
> The leading space caused my job call to fail elsewhere in the same
> shell script as the psql call. Here is the anonymized version of the
> psql call to assign a value to a shell script variable:
>
> IDz=`psql -d proddb -U produser -h 10.9.999.99 -p 99900 -t <
> last_id.sql`
Get in the habit of including -A which gets rid of alignment padding in
psql output.
As in...
shellvar=`psql -Atqc 'select froboz;'` $db
HTH
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