Re: yum update / install from file

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 09:42 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 07:52 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > Tony Crouch wrote:
> > > Hi All, 
> > > I was wondering if anyone knows whether its possible to update yum from
> > > a file containing a list of packages (one per line).
> > > 
> > > I have tried:
> > > 
> > > yum -y install < file-name
> > 
> > Better: yum -y install $(cat filename)
> > 
> > makes from the lines of filename the options list (package list) for yum.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Joachim Backes
> > 
> Will yum handle the lf chars in the file filename? I don't think so.
I was wrong: yum -y install $(cat filename
works as does 
yum -y install `cat filename`

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