> Date: Sunday, March 06, 2016 22:25:55 -0600 > From: g <geleem at bellsouth.net> > > On 03/06/16 22:15, Richard wrote: > <<>> > >> "shell" is a yum command, invoked as shown below. I don't believe >> there is any program called "yum-shell" (even though that is the >> man page reference). >> >> shell Is used to enter the 'yum shell', when a filename is >> specified the contents of that file is executed in >> yum shell mode. See yum-shell(8) for more info. >> >> SYNOPSIS >> yum shell [filename] >> >> The contents of the file need to be standard yum-acceptable lines. >> I.e., the lines of a package list would need to be edited to >> include "install " and/or input continuation characters, etc. >> > -- > > ok. so how about; > > yum shell install < pkginstalllist.file I suspect not. However, yum shell pkginstalllist.file where you have prepended "install " to each line (and I believe added "run" at the end) of that file would seem to be likely to work. A simple vi or perl search/replace edit/one-line script should get you the input file you need. Since you have an interest in this I'll let you read the man page and do the experimenting.