Command line option

Hi

How do I write my psql command line if I want the output to be tab
separated?

If I use psql interactively, I would go

#psql name_of_db

name_of_db =# \a
name_of_db =# \f '\t'
name_of_db =# \o outputfile.txt
name_of_db =# \i queryfile.sql

This produces nice tab separated output that I can open in Excel and
that is recognised as such.

I understand that my command line should look like this:

psql -A -F something_to_produce_a_tab -f queryfile.sql -o
outputfile.txt name_of_db

But obviously I am struggling to get the string for
something_to_produce_a_tab right. I tried '\t' of course and many
variants of it, but I always ending up inserting the string literally
(more or less).

Can somebody please help? I am on FreeBSD, using the bash shell and
PostgreSQL 8.1.2.

Thanks

DR