Re: How to query by column names

Jeff Frost wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Josh Williams wrote:
> 
>> From: Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
>>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Richard Ray wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> That's definitely part of it.  I'm assuming the above is an abridged 
>> example and the OP is doing something dynamic with the query.  The 
>> real trouble is Bash likes to expand the asterisk into a list of every 
>> file in the current directory when you try to push the command through 
>> a variable.  So it's just a matter of finding a way to escape the * 

Oh, good grief Charlie Brown:

backslash it:
\*

so:echo select \* from whatsit | psql test


>> character to keep Bash from globbing, which unfortunately right now is 
>> escaping me (no pun intended.)

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