Escaping single quotes in shell for postgresql

Question

I\'m trying to execute SQK through psql under postgres account. I\'m able run SQL that doesn\'t contain quotes

root@server:/home/rosta/SCRIPTS# su postgres -c &qu         


        

Answer 1

Simplest way is to use a 'here document' , which ignores all quoting:

#!/bin/sh
DB_NAME=my_data_base

psql -U postgres postgres <