From here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/app-psql.html
-F separator
--field-separator=separator
Use separator as the field separator for unaligned output. This is equivalent to \pset fieldsep or \f.
Bobb
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 12:33 PM
> To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
> Subject: Formating psql query output
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> Until I finish building the python/tkinter/psycopg2 front end to my business
> tracking tool I continue to work using the psql shell.'
>
> I have a working .sql script that reports my contacts between two dates; the
> script returns more columns than I want included in the report. I want to pipe
> the output through an awk script to extract, in order, the columns I need. I'm
> stuck at the point of defining options to psql.
>
> The current command line is:
> psql -d bustrac -f prospecting_log.sql -o contacts.txt --csv
>
> However, using the --csv output conversion makes separate fields from a
> varchar column that can contain commas with the text contents.
>
> Without --csv I get normal psql output with column headings and separator
> lines such as these:
> person_nbr | act_date | act_type |
> notes
> | person_nbr | lname | fname | org_nbr | org_nbr | org_name
> ------------+------------+-----------+------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------+------------+------------------+------------+---------+--
> -------+----------------------
>
> Is there an option that will retain the '|' separator but exclude the headings?
> Reading the psql document page I don't see such an option.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
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