Josh Harrison wrote:

>>>>> Can you help
>>>> Hmm, works fine for me, what does this produce:
>>>>
>>>> echo '\d' |psql -t -p 5432 bench_replication
>>>>
>>> public | accounts | table | josh
>>>  public | branches | table | josh
>>>  public | dummy1   | table | josh
>>>  public | dummy2   | table | josh
>>>  public | history  | table | josh
>>>  public | tellers  | table | josh
>>>
>>> This s just a test database
>> Weird, this should work.  What shell are you using?  bash?  What distro?
>>
> 
> bash --version
> GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-pc-solaris2.10)

This must be something inherent to bash on solaris.  I've tried it with 
bash and ksh on Linux and it works fine.  It's likely an issue with the 
way the quotes are being parsed.

I'll play with it and see if I can come up with an alternative solution, 
although I don't have solaris to test it on.


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Until later, Geoffrey

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