The revised version has the same result. If I change the name of the script
(another poster suggested avoiding the reserved word 'merge') there is a
different error message.
Thanks,
Warren
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#!/bin/bash
for f in `ls /home/kelly/message/*`
do
psql -d pg -c "INSERT INTO mail (message)
VALUES ('`cat $f`')"
done
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[kelly@localhost pg]$ merge
merge: not enough arguments
merge: usage: merge [-AeEpqxX3] [-L lab [-L lab [-L lab]]] file1 file2 file3
merge aborted
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[kelly@localhost pg]$ merge4
bash: merge4: command not found
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>
>On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:48, Warren Massengill wrote:
> > 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*`
> ^^^^^^
> message/*
>
> > do
> > psql -d pg -c "INSERT INTO mail (message)
> > VALUES ('`cat $f`')"
> > done
>
>Your files are in that directory, so the wild card must be too.
>--
>Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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