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or a single backslash command. Thus you cannot mix
<acronym>SQL</acronym> and <application>psql</application>
meta-commands. To achieve that, you could pipe the string into
- <application>psql</application>, like this: <literal>echo "\x \\
- select * from foo;" | psql</literal>.
+ <application>psql</application>, like this: <literal>echo -e
+ "\\x\nSELECT * FROM foo;" | psql</literal>.
</para>
<para>
If the command string contains multiple SQL commands, they are