On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM hubert depesz lubaczewski <dep...@depesz.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 04:37:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > This statement runs great from the psql prompt. Does exactly what I > want. > > select datname from pg_database WHERE datname !~ 'template|postgres' > ORDER > > BY datname; > > But it doesn't work so well from the bash prompt. Not escaping the "!" > > generates a bunch of garbage, while escaping throws an sql syntax error. > > The problem is that ! is magical in bash. > > The solution is to not use it. Instead you can easily do: > > psql -Xc "select datname from pg_database WHERE not datname ~ > 'template|postgres' ORDER BY datname;" > I've used WHERE NOT ()" before. Should have thought of it here. Thanks. -- Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce. Don't boil me, I'm still alive. <Redacted> lobster!
