bash - postgresql: .pgpass not working

Question

I have created a .pgpass file in my home directory which looks like this

localhost:5432:somedb:someuser:somepass

I am using a shell script which creates a directory and puts a pg_dump of somedb there :

mkdir directory
pg_dump somedb > directory/somefile.dump

It still prompts for the password.

Where is the mistake here ?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16786011/postgresql-pgpass-not-working

Answer 1

Did you try specifying the host, user, & db?

pg_dump -U someuser -h localhost somedb > directory/somefile.dump