Thank you for the reminders, John. I changed my .z file extension to .tmp and removed the trailing / from my pre-defined directory path.
I'm still getting the same results as before though after changing the .z file extension to .tmp. The ${DBNAME} and ${HOSTNAME} variables are input at run time. Here is usage format: ### Usage: copy_data.sh rfc_name db_name [db_host] Note: [db_host] (hostname) is optional with default localhost, which is what I'm using in this particular case. My actual input at execution time was this: ./install_db.sh RFC-00001 stp This script calls the copy_data.sh script. ${CSVPATH} is: /home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001 (after removing the trailing /) --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susan E Hurst Principal Consultant Brookhurst Data LLC Email: susan.hu...@brookhurstdata.com Mobile: 314-486-3261 On 2020-12-29 13:20, John McKown wrote: > Can't really tell. You might want to post the output of the "printenv" > command to show us what the shell variables you are using have in them. Oh, > does ${CSVPATH} end in a slash? If it is something like "~/mycsvs" then > ${CSVPATH}copycmd.z will expand to "~/mycsvscopycmd.z". Most "PATH" > environment variables don't end in a /, perhaps you need > "${CSVPATH}/copycmd.z" ? Also, as an aside. most UNIX files which end in .z > are compressed, IIRC. Make sure the contents of the file are plain text. > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 1:12 PM Susan Hurst <susan.hu...@brookhurstdata.com> > wrote: > >> I am trying to use the copy command from a csv files using a UNIX shell >> script but something is 'not found'...I can't figure out what is 'not >> found'. Below is my command from the shell script, the executed command, >> the content of the csv file and the output from trying to execute the >> command. >> >> Clearly, the file is being read but I can't figure out what is not >> found. BTW, the column names in the stg.bar_active table match the names >> and order in the first row of the csv file. What should I be looking >> for? >> >> Thanks for your help! >> >> Sue >> >> ##-- shell script command >> psql -d ${DBNAME} -U ${DBNAME} -h ${HOSTNAME} -c < ${CSVPATH}copycmd.z >> >> ##-- executed command >> "copy stg.bar_active from >> '/home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001/RFC-00001_copy_bar_active.csv' >> delimiter ',' CSV HEADER;" >> >> ##-- content of .csv file >> schema_name,table_name,table_alias ...(this is the header >> row) >> chief,source_systems,ssys >> chief,lookup_categories,lcat >> chief,lookup_data,ldat >> >> ##-- output from terminal window >> /home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001/RFC-00001_copy_bar_active.csv: >> schema_name,table_name,table_alias: not found >> /home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001/RFC-00001_copy_bar_active.csv: >> chief,source_systems,ssys: not found >> /home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001/RFC-00001_copy_bar_active.csv: >> chief,lookup_categories,lcat: not found >> /home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001/RFC-00001_copy_bar_active.csv: >> chief,lookup_data,ldat: not found >> >> ##-- select version(); >> PostgreSQL 11.9 on amd64-portbld-freebsd12.1, compiled by FreeBSD clang >> version 8.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_801/final 366581) (based on LLVM 8.0.1), >> 64-bit >> >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Susan E Hurst >> Principal Consultant >> Brookhurst Data LLC >> Email: susan.hu...@brookhurstdata.com >> Mobile: 314-486-3261