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\w
Writes the current query buffer to the file filename or pipes it to the shell command command . If the current query buffer is empty, the most recently executed query is written instead.
Reading PostgreSQL 18.6.
Description
Writes the current query buffer to the file filename or pipes it to the shell command command . If the current query buffer is empty, the most recently executed query is written instead.
- Client
- psql 18.6
- Case-sensitive spelling
- \w
Usage
\w or \write filename \w or \write | commandSpellings in this manual definition
Manual definition
\wor\writefilename\wor\write|command-
Writes the current query buffer to the file
filenameor pipes it to the shell commandcommand. If the current query buffer is empty, the most recently executed query is written instead.If the argument begins with
|, then the entire remainder of the line is taken to be thecommandto execute, and neither variable interpolation nor backquote expansion are performed in it. The rest of the line is simply passed literally to the shell.
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Documentation and source
Source build
- Version
- 18.6
- Build
- https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v18.6/postgresql-18.6.tar.bz2
- Source fingerprint
ee8d1a3612338fd9adf250730cb640fcc5233b5491337cc00a316a44e3a0b9f8
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PostgreSQL 17 → 18: unchanged.
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