Appending a newline to a column value - in a psql cronjob

From: Alexander Farber <alexander(dot)farber(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Appending a newline to a column value - in a psql cronjob
Date: 2012-01-13 12:11:43
Message-ID: CAADeyWiZ6swEZtcwYou0mUe-zuSACpwfY5KTQCfSFWX5P12LTw@mail.gmail.com
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Hello!

I'm using PostgreSQL 8.4.9 on CentOS 6.2 and with bash.

The following cronjob works well for me
(trying to send a mail to myself - for moderation):

6 6 * * * psql -c "select
'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id, about from pref_rep where
length(about) > 1 and last_rated > now() - interval '1 day'"

but I can't figure out how to append a newline to the
1st value (because otherwise the line is too long
and I have to scroll right in my mail reader):

What I've tried sofar:

# history
1001 psql -c "select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id||'\n', about from .....
1002 psql -c "select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id||'\\n', about
from .....
1003 psql -c "select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id|| "\\n",
about from .....
1004 psql -c "select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id|| \"\\n\",
about from .....
1005 psql -c "select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id|| \"\n\",
about from .....
1006 psql -c "select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id|| \'\n\',
about from .....

Thank you
Alex

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