Copy a few of the columns of a csv file into a table

Question

I have a CSV file with 10 columns. After creating a PostgreSQL table with 4 columns, I want to copy some of 10 columns into the table.

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Answer 1

You could take James Brown's suggestion further and do, all in one line:

$ awk -F ',' '{print $2","$5","$7","$10}' file | psql -d db -c "\copy MyTable from STDIN csv header"