> How can I get that back out to bash, if I'm doing psql scripting?
> An env. variable wouldn't work, since it would go away when psql
> terminates.
Capture the stdout of the psql command and pipe it through cut in order to
get only the third word of output.
your_shell_variable=`psql -c 'insert into t1 select attrs from t2' | cut -d'
' -f3`
hth,
cl.
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