Thank you, Alvaro. Literal tab, that's one thing I never tried. Yes, it works. Regards, Tena Sakai tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On 5/31/10 8:58 PM, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Excerpts from Tena Sakai's message of lun may 31 21:36:41 -0400 2010: > >> But when I do this: >> $ echo "select marker, p, afreq from gallo.fbat_sdsdecode limit 10" | \ >>> psql -P 'format=unaligned' -P 'fieldsep=\t' -t -f - musket >> (here the only change from the previous is the specification of fieldsep) >> Then I get: >> RS3094315\t0.578121\t0.735 > > Use a literal tab. You can enter this in decent shells with Ctrl-V followed > by a tab. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin