Thank you. I found out my cute genlop command doesn't work the way I had intended. However, I was able to appreciate and use your little one-liners. Fantastic.
In particular, I generated a file with a hybrid of your sed command and my list-to-a-file idea, and edit the lines that didn't work as shown by --pretend. Then I used "cat ... ... ... " to update. Thank you. Now that that's out of the way, maybe, I wonder what else may be stuck due to the date blowup. For sure, there are some config files that the system points out. Thank you again and again, Alan On 1/2/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:14:27 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > > genlop just says: > > #genlop --list --date 01/01/2020 01/01/2021 > > Date 2020010100:00:00 is in the future, not good > > The solution to which is obvious, don't give a date in the future. --date > works with a single argument, using the present time as the end time. > > > > I got a list of packages with this: > > > > #genlop --list | grep 2020 |cut -b 38- | emerge >2020list > > > > Is it possible to run emerge using a list of files as input? Or stdin? > > cat somefile | xargs emerge --oneshot --pretend > > or you could do it all in one step with, for example > > genlop --nocolor --list --date last week | grep '>>>' | sed 's/.*>>> /=/' | > xargs emerge --oneshot --pretend > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Photons have mass? I didn't know they were catholic! > > > -- [email protected] mailing list
