Re: Batch: DB password with ">"

Hi,

You can use below command to get the desired output.

echo localhost:5432:postgres:postgres:7Ug^\>uAks!{VA > %PGPASSFILE%
or
echo "localhost:5432:postgres:postgres:7Ug^>uAks!{VA" > %PGPASSFILE%

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:38 PM Schenk, Hendrik <
hendrik(dot)schenk(at)sieb-meyer(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
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> i want to modiy the adatabse via batch script. The user has a password
> that contains symbols like that “g>uAks!”. The problem here is the “greater
> than”-symbol.
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> *call set PGPASSFILE=%TEMP%\pgpass.conf*
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> *echo localhost:5432:postgres:postgres:7Ug^>uAks!{VA > %PGPASSFILE%*
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> *"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\bin\psql" -U postgres*
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> psql will always fail with FATAL: User-Athentification failed. The
> password was read from ..\Local\Temp\pgpass.conf
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> If I set a Enviromentvariable and “echo” it, it will not work, because of
> the >-symbol.
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> *C:\Users\hschenk>set PGPASSWORD=lalal>lala*
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> *C:\Users\hschenk>echo %PGPASSWORD%*
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> *Lalal*
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> How can I use this with a password like this?
>