A. Van Hook writes:
> #!/usr/bin/expect
>
> set query [lindex $argv 0]
> set query [lindex $argv 1]
>
> spawn psql imdb -U hook -n
> expect "Password: ";
> send "$passwd\n ";
> expect "imdb=# ";
> send "$query;\r";
> expect "imdb=# ";
> send "\q;\r";
>
> The problem is that long query returns invoke the paging option so you
> can scroll a page a time. Paging doesn't work properly within the
> script and even if it did , I would have to disable it in order to
> redirect the output to a file or a pipe.
Try psql -P pager to turn the pager off. Also you can probably use
export PGPASSWORD=xyz
psql ...
to skip the password probe.
--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/