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it contains no <application>psql</application> specific features),
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 -e
- "\\x\nSELECT * FROM foo;" | psql</literal>.
+ meta-commands with this option. To achieve that, you could
+ pipe the string into <application>psql</application>, like
+ this: <literal>echo "\x \\ SELECT * FROM foo;" | psql</literal>.
+ (<literal>\\</> is the separator meta-command.)
</para>
<para>
If the command string contains multiple SQL commands, they are