Hi,
It works for me, for example, this way:
athens% psql -d template1 -c "select datname from pg_database" datname
-----------template1postgresbiologytest
(4 rows)
Hope this helps,
-Rita
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, DalTech - Continuing Technical Education wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could help me out with the syntax of running queries from a unix script.
>
> psql -c select 'I am a dummy' -d dbname - never seems to work. I've tried variations on the command line, but to no
success.
>
> Does the -c option work?
>
> Cheers,
> Christopher Currie
>
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