basically I wanted to go through the entire list one at a time
and keep a list of rpm that I havent looked at and
keep a list of rpm that I have removed
thanks for the info
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Subject: Re: passing info to rpm
Author: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08/02/2000 8:48 PM
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to learn scripting and getting rid of some unnecessary rpm
> packages at the same time here's what I'm doing
>
> rpm -qa > x
> head -n 1 x | rpm -qi this part dosen't work
> it gives an error of "rpm: no arguments given for query"
A pipe passes stdout to stdin. rpm expects arguments on the command
line.
rpm -qa | head -n 1 |xargs rpm -qi
Why not just use
rpm -qai
(-qail if you want to see the list of files too)
????
>
> I've also tried
>
> head -n 1 x > tmp
> rpm -qi < tmp which give the same error as above
>
> how do I pass info to rpm? using bash?
>
xargs is a very useful and under-apprciated program, with a nice man
page.
>
Lawson
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