Re: Writing freebcp output to a pipe or STDOUT?

Igor Korot <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:00 PM, James K. Lowden <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:31:20 -0400
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to direct the output of freebcp to a names pipe or to
>> STDOUT? ... or does it always have to write to a disk file?
>
> Most systems nowadays support /dev/stdout:
>
> $ freebcp systypes out /dev/stdout -c -t'|' ... | head -3
> bigint|127|0|127|8|19|0|0|0|1|0||0|0|1|63||19|0|
> binary|173|2|173|8000|0|0|0|0|1|0||3|0|1|45||8000||
> bit|104|0|104|1|1|0|0|0|1|0||16|0|1|50||1|0|
>
> To a named pipe works, too, of course.
>
> >From a named pipe does not, unfortunately, because freebcp seeks over
> the file while parsing it.

However, you can probably write a small Perl script to achieve this. ;-)

Thank you.

>
> HTH.
>
> --jkl
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