12-19-2008
methyl,
so i used your shell program and just added a redirect to a file like so:
cat infile|tr -d "${BADCHAR}" > outfile
when i looked at the outfile w/ vi the \240 chars were still there but with a trailing \256 on the first occurence of the \240 and a trailing \211 after the second \240
the line in vi looks like this: MACHINENAME\240\256.com MACHINENAME\240\211.com
before running your script, the line looked like:
MACHINENAME\240\.com MACHINENAME\240\.com
BTW the \240, \256 and \211 characters are one character - like an embedded control character.
weird
thx for trying,
pat
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drop_database
DROP
DATABASE(7) SQL Commands DROP DATABASE(7)
NAME
DROP DATABASE - remove a database
SYNOPSIS
DROP DATABASE name
INPUTS
name The name of an existing database to remove.
OUTPUTS
DROP DATABASE
This message is returned if the command is successful.
DROP DATABASE: cannot be executed on the currently open database
You cannot be connected to the database you are about to remove. Instead, connect to template1 or any other database and run this
command again.
DROP DATABASE: may not be called in a transaction block
You must finish the transaction in progress before you can call this command.
DESCRIPTION
DROP DATABASE removes the catalog entries for an existing database and deletes the directory containing the data. It can only be executed
by the database owner (usually the user that created it).
DROP DATABASE cannot be undone. Use it with care!
NOTES
This command cannot be executed while connected to the target database. Thus, it might be more convenient to use the shell script dropdb
[dropdb(1)], which is a wrapper around this command, instead.
Refer to CREATE DATABASE [create_database(7)] for information on how to create a database.
COMPATIBILITY
SQL92
DROP DATABASE statement is a PostgreSQL language extension; there is no such command in SQL92.
SQL - Language Statements 2002-11-22 DROP DATABASE(7)