PostgreSQL CSV import from command line

Question

I\'ve been using the psql Postgres terminal to import CSV files into tables using the following

COPY tbname FROM
\'/tmp/the_file.csv\'
delimiter \'|\' csv;
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Answer 1

To complete the previous answer, I would suggest:

psql -d your_dbname --user=db_username -c "COPY tbname FROM '/tmp/the_file.csv' delimiter '|' csv;"