[CentOS] yum remove from stdout
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Sun Jul 13 15:16:09 UTC 2008
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 09:02:44AM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> On 7/13/2008 8:50 AM, David Hláčik wrote:
>> Hello, little tricky question :
>> i have a file of packages for removal , which looks like that :
>> atk libart_lgpl libXfixes audiofile libXcursor libxslt alsa-lib esound
>> how to , provide that file to yum, using pipe, or redirect does not work
>> cat result | yum remove ..
>
>
> Try the xargs command:
>
> cat result | xargs yum remove
>
You could probably also do something like:
# for line in `cat packages.txt`; do echo remove $line >> yumshell.txt; done
# echo run >> yumshell.txt
# yum shell yumshell.txt
That might be a bit faster as it'll only do the dep-solving one time.
Ray
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