FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

Maybe this is a freebcp question, maybe not.  

Many of my bulk data files are delimited with one backslash between the
columns; rows are terminated with two characters:  backslash+newline.  

I eventually came up with a (shell-specific) way to pass the newline to
freebcp:

$ freebcp D..T in F -eT.err -c -t\\ -r\\$'\n' -S S -U U -P P

which is OK, if you like bash.  

Does Sybase's bcp do this the same way, or does it recognize the
two-charcter string "\n" as a newline?  And, what should we do?  

In the so-called shell in NT, I pass "-t\\ -r\\\n".  I think bcp.exe
interprets the meta characters.  Don't know what the Right Thing is, here.  

BTW freebcp doesn't return nonzero for many error conditions.  

--jkl



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