Re: How to use psql -c?

On Dec 30, 2003, at 3:07 AM, Hans Peter Wiedau wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:37:57PM -0700, Charles Haron wrote:
>
>> The following command works as I want:
>> psql -c "DELETE FROM prg_dates_members WHERE confirm = 'f';" comfire
>>
>> I want to be able to run the above command as a cron job. I created a
>> script with the following command, but I get "ERROR: Attribute 'f'
>> not
>> found":
>> su - postgres -c 'psql -c "DELETE FROM prg_dates_members WHERE
>> confirm =
>> 'f';" comfire'
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to do this?
>
> The bash manual page says:
>
> A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when
> preceded by a backslash.
>
> So, try this one:
>
> su - postgres -c "psql -c \"DELETE FROM prg_dates_members WHERE
> confirm = 'f'\" comfire"
>

It works perfectly! Thank you very much.

Chuck

> cu,
>
> Hans Peter
>
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