Tom Lane wrote: > chrisj <chrisj.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> This helped a lot, but ideally I want a tab field delimiter and -F '\t' does >> not seem to work, any ideas?? > > I don't think there's any provision for backslash-notation in that > switch; you'd need to type an actual tab character there. Depending on > what shell you use, that might be a bit difficult on an interactive > shell command line, but it should be simple enough to insert one in a > script file. I'm not sure what shell is being used, but the following works with bash, csh, tcsh, and ksh under Linux: In order to emit an actual tab character on the shell command line (and ignore any shell auto-completion features that are normally tied to the tab key), preface the literal tab character with Ctrl-V. Thus, the delimiter specification from above would be typed "-F '<Ctrl-V><Tab>'". Hope this helps. Andrew
