Kirk Wythers <kwythers@xxxxxxx> writes: > Can anyone see what I'm misisng? I am trying to run a psql "copy from" command through a bash script to load a buch of cdv files into the same table. I'm getting an error about the file "infile" not existing? > > #!/bin/sh > > for infile in /path_to_files/*.csv > do > cat infile | psql dbname -c "\copy table_name FROM stdin with delimiter as ',' NULL AS 'NA' CSV HEADER" > done Well, I don't know what else could be wrong but suggest you get rid of the backslash as in \copy and just say COPY which is the SQL command. \copy is a psql macro and I'm not sure it's appropriate here. And you win the "useless use of cat award" here too. psql ... <infile Of course one good reason for preferring cat is that you'll never type > by mistake instead of < and clobber your data. Er, some shells have a no-clobber option though. HTH > Thanks in advance > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Jerry Sievers Postgres DBA/Development Consulting e: postgres.consulting@xxxxxxxxxxx p: 312.241.7800 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
