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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How would I get rid of trailing blank line?
Date: Mon,  6 Apr 2009 02:21:59 -0000
Message-ID: <f2bd06ed8591a98155db624596667332@biglumber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FE44E0D7EAD2ED4BB2165071DB8E328C04E84A65@egcrc-ex01.egcrc.org>


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> report at the bottom.  There is a blank line
> at the bottom, however.  Is there any way to
> have psql not give me that blank line?

Now that my presenation on psql is over :), I'll share my solution:

psql -AX -qt -c "SELECT ..." | perl -pe 's/^\n// if $.<2'

This strips a newline from the first line only of the output, and
only if the line consists of nothing else. Highly recommended
for cron.

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