Re: Exporting 1 text column from all rows from a table to a file per row?

Joost Kraaijeveld <J(dot)Kraaijeveld(at)Askesis(dot)nl> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible, and if so how, to export a single column of a table
> into a separate file per row? I have a table with ~21000 rows that
> have a column "body1" containing ASCII text and I want to have 21000
> separate ASCII files, each containing that column "body1". The name
> of the file does not matter, although it would be nice if they had
> the extension "txt".

run a script like this and save to a file that you will later run sh
on...

psql -Atqf thatscript >sh_commands

create temp sequence s;

select 'cat <<! >' || nextval('s')::text || '.txt
' || somefield || '
!'
from sometable;

> TIA
>
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>
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