Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible, and if so how, to export a single column of a table
> into a separate file per row? I have a table with ~21000 rows that
> have a column "body1" containing ASCII text and I want to have 21000
> separate ASCII files, each containing that column "body1". The name
> of the file does not matter, although it would be nice if they had
> the extension "txt".
run a script like this and save to a file that you will later run sh
on...
psql -Atqf thatscript >sh_commands
create temp sequence s;
select 'cat <<! >' || nextval('s')::text || '.txt
' || somefield || '
!'
from sometable;
> TIA
>
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>
> Joost Kraaijeveld
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> 6524NB Nijmegen
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> fax: 024-3608416
> web: www.askesis.nl
>
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