> On Dec 31, 2018, at 10:36 AM, Mark Mikulec <mark(at)mikutech(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This command, which generates a JSON object as output, has some escaped data with backslashes: (see line 91 here: https://pastebin.com/D4it8ybS)
>
> C:\\Portable\\curl\\curl.exe -k "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?etcVariablesDeleted"'
>
> I use the COPY command to pull it into a temp table like so:
>
> COPY temp_maps_api from program 'C:\\Portable\\curl\\curl.exe -k "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?etcVariablesDeleted"';
>
> However copy eats those backslashes. I need to use quote_literal() but that's a syntax error. For some reason the COPY command doesn't allow for ESCAPE to work with programs, only CSV.
>
> I tried using WITH BINARY but I get the error message: "COPY file signature not recognized"
>
> Does anyone know how to make COPY FROM PROGRAM take the output literally?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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Can you pipe the curl output through sed s,\\,\\\\,g