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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting PSQL multiple queries output to file Post 302994176 by nms on Monday 20th of March 2017 07:00:46 AM
Old 03-20-2017
Hammer & Screwdriver PSQL multiple queries output to file

Hi,

I have a shell script containing multiple PSQL queries for which I want the output to be redirected to a text file.

Code:
psql -U postgres -d database -o textfile.txt << EOF
Query1;
Query2;
Query ....;
EOF

When executing the script, queries outputs are directed to textfile.txt, however when script was set in cron, textfile.txt is not being updated.
Does anyone have a different way how I can output query results to a text file.


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