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