Question

My current script looks something like this:

!/bin/sh 
sudo -u postgres createdb mydb
sudo -u postgres psql mydb
CREATE TABLE person (first VARCHAR(32), last VARCHAR(32));
CREATE TABLE thing (size VARCHAR(32), price VARCHAR(32));
exit 0;

As of right now, when I execute the script it creates the database and logs me into it. However, after it logs me into mydb the script does not continue to do the CREATE TABLE commands.

I’m new when it comes to this stuff so I have no idea if I’m going about this the right way. Basically I just want a script that creates a database and then a few tables inside it (using PostgreSQL).

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash

psql -d mydb -U postgres -c "CREATE TABLE person (first VARCHAR(32), last VARCHAR(32));"
psql -d mydb -U postgres -c "CREATE TABLE thing (size VARCHAR(32), price VARCHAR(32));"

You can run all queries with -c option.