Re: How to use psql -c?

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:37:57PM -0700, Charles Haron wrote:

> The following command works as I want:
> psql -c "DELETE FROM prg_dates_members WHERE confirm = 'f';" comfire
>
> I want to be able to run the above command as a cron job.  I created a
> script with the following command, but I get "ERROR:  Attribute 'f' not
> found":
> su - postgres -c 'psql  -c "DELETE FROM prg_dates_members WHERE confirm =
> 'f';" comfire'
>
> What am I doing wrong?  Is there a better way to do this?

The bash manual page says:

    A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when
    preceded by a backslash.

So, try this one:

    su - postgres -c "psql -c \"DELETE FROM prg_dates_members WHERE confirm = 'f'\" comfire"

cu,

Hans Peter

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