Format stdin in bash
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I have a multi-line string coming from another program that I want to convert to a SQL command. I was hoping that printf could help me, but it doesn't seem to work:
echo -e '1\n2\n3'|printf 'SELECT %s INTO MyTable'
I was hoping to see:
SELECT '1 2 3' INTO MyTable
But I got:
SELECT INTO MyTable
How can I get the %s to read stdin?
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