Re: paging

A. Van Hook writes:

> #!/usr/bin/expect
>
> set query [lindex $argv 0]
> set query [lindex $argv 1]
>
> spawn psql imdb -U hook -n
> expect "Password: ";
> send "$passwd\n ";
> expect "imdb=# ";
> send "$query;\r";
> expect "imdb=# ";
> send "\q;\r";
>
> The problem is that long query returns invoke the paging option so you
> can scroll a page a time. Paging doesn't work properly within the
> script and even if it did , I would have to disable it in order to
> redirect the output to a file or a pipe.

Try psql -P pager to turn the pager off. Also you can probably use

export PGPASSWORD=xyz
psql ...

to skip the password probe.

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