How about (for a start): for i in *.txt; do sqlite3 dir.db "insert into texts values('$i', '`cat $i`');"; done
Probably there shouldn't be any single quotes in the contents. Ben G > Given table texts(filename text, contents blob) and a directory of plain > text files, is it possible (using the command line interface alone) to > populate the table with the names and contents of all the text files, one > file per record? > Thanks in advance, Paul Craven _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users