On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:16 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think the proper fix is: > > > > > <application>psql</application>, like this: <literal>echo -e > > > "\\x\nSELECT * FROM foo;" | psql</literal>. > > > > > I think all modern operating systems understand echo -e at this point. > > > > No, they don't, and neither does the Single Unix Spec: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/echo.html > > > > So your version of the example depends on non-standards-compliant > > echo behavior, which is not better than before. > > Well, at least my example works on _some_ operating systems, while the > previous worked on none of them, so it is _better_. > > I can't think of a good way to do this except converting the example to > a <programlisting> block that will not change newlines: > > echo '\x > SELECT * FROM foo;' | psql > > Is that what people want?
Well, it works, but IMHO its not as clear. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
