Shell script to execute pgsql commands in files

Question

I am trying to automate a set of procedures that create TEMPLATE databases.

I have a set of files (file1, file2, ... fileN), each of which contains a set of pgsql com

Answer 1

you can echo your commands to the psql input:

for dbname in foo foofoo foobar barbar
do
    echo """
CREATE DATABASE $dbname TEMPLATE mytemplate1
""" | psql
done