Once upon a time, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> said: > Ralf Prengel wrote: > > Hallo, > > I need the information how many updates are available for a system. > > What is the best way to find it out in a one line bash script. > > > yum check-update, perhaps? Note that "yum check-update" or "yum list updates" won't tell you how many packages would be installed with "yum update"... dependencies and such are not resolved for check-update/list updates. -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>