psql - save results of command to a file

Question

I\'m using psql\'s \\dt to list all tables in a database and I need to save the results.

What is the syntax to export the results of a psql command to a

Answer 1

If you got the following error

ufgtoolspg=> COPY (SELECT foo, bar FROM baz) TO '/tmp/query.csv' (format csv, delimiter ';');
ERROR:  must be superuser to COPY to or from a file
HINT:  Anyone can COPY to stdout or from stdin. psql's \copy command also works for anyone.

you can run it in this way:

psql somepsqllink_or_credentials -c "COPY (SELECT foo, bar FROM baz) TO STDOUT (format csv, delimiter ';')"  > baz.csv