Re: Copy entire file as one field

Warren,

merge is an actual linux utility used to merge files.  When you ran the
command it found the system command before it could get to your script.  To
run your program, cd to the your program is  stored.  Then type in
   ./merge

This will execute the program in your current directory.  This should do
the trick,

Devinder




                    
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My database is pg, the table is mail.
The small text files are in /home/kelly/message/.
The bash shell script is merge.

Somehow I failed to translate your instructions...

-----------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash

for f in `ls /home/kelly/message*`
do
        psql -d pg -c "INSERT INTO mail (message)
                                 VALUES ('`cat $f`')"
done

----------------------------------------------------
[kelly@localhost message]$ merge
merge: not enough arguments
merge: usage: merge [-AeEpqxX3] [-L lab [-L lab [-L lab]]] file1 file2
file3
merge aborted

----------------------------------------------------
Thanks,
Warren

>From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
>To: Warren Massengill <warrenmassengill@hotmail.com>
>CC: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Copy entire file as one field
>Date: 28 Nov 2002 07:43:12 +0000
>
>On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 00:40, Warren Massengill wrote:
> > How can I copy several hundred small text files into a database, each
>file
> > going into a field called 'message' and becomming one record (with or
> > without other fields) using psql?
>
>A bit of shell scripting:
>
>for f in `ls small_file*`
>do
>     psql -d mydatabase -c "INSERT INTO mytable (message)
>                        VALUES ('`cat $f`')"
>done
>
>
>--
>Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
>Isle of Wight, UK                             http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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>       world, and they that dwell therein."       Psalms 24:1
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