On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> wrote: > You could probably also do something like: > > # for line in `cat packages.txt`; do echo remove $line >> yumshell.txt; done > # echo run >> yumshell.txt > # yum shell yumshell.txt Or, without the tempfile and in one line: # { for line in `cat packages.txt`; do echo remove "$line"; done; echo run; } | yum shell > That might be a bit faster as it'll only do the dep-solving one time. Not really. "xargs" will by default call yum remove with a long line of parameters. It will only break that into multiple commands if the line is too long (too many parameters or too many characters). man xargs for the details, see the -n and -s parameters. Filipe