Chris Adams wrote: > 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. > Ok, you want it all, fine: echo "n" | yum update | egrep "Install|Upgrade" mark