Wow! The -A option worked perfectly!
Thanks for the syntax lesson Steve and Jerry!
Sue
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Susan E Hurst
Principal Consultant
Brookhurst Data LLC
Email: susan.hurst@brookhurstdata.com
Mobile: 314-486-3261
On 2018-06-27 14:38, Jerry Sievers wrote:
> 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
