On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 04:37:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > This statement runs great from the psql prompt. Does exactly what I want. > select datname from pg_database WHERE datname !~ 'template|postgres' ORDER > BY datname; > But it doesn't work so well from the bash prompt. Not escaping the "!" > generates a bunch of garbage, while escaping throws an sql syntax error. The problem is that ! is magical in bash. The solution is to not use it. Instead you can easily do: psql -Xc "select datname from pg_database WHERE not datname ~ 'template|postgres' ORDER BY datname;" Best regards, depesz
