Fredrik Wikstr�m wrote:
Hi,

This may be a stupid question and perhaps nothing that's recommended to do
but:
Is it possible to make emerge take a file list as argument?
I've been searching gentoo forums and the internet but I haven't found any
solution. What I'm thinking of is if it's possible to pipe a file with
packages listed to the emerge command?


U probably didn't find it, because it's really basic unix knowledge :-),
to find, which pedal in a car is the brake or clutch one is probably also difficult on inet ... i.e. man bash is a *must* reading !
If u know only M$ "bat" syntax, u'll feel like Alice in Wonderworld,
belive me :-).


As Matt adviced, emerge `cat file_list` is what u need.

And just for completness:

or emerge $(cat file_list) (this is the same in another syntax)

or cat file_list | xargs emerge (sometimes very helpfull construction)

noro


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