rpm installing using for loop
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jan 24 10:26:42 UTC 2006
Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am stuck with installing rpm using for loop
>
> I tried the below
>
> #for i in 'cat list'; do rpm -ivh $i ; done
>
> It gives me the below error
>
> error: open of cat failed: No such file or directory
> error: list cannot be installed
> [root at bdc31096e root]#
> [root at bdc31096e root]# cat list
> sylpheed-1.0.0-3.i386.rpm
> dmidecode-2.5-2.i586.rpm
> [root at bdc31096e root]#
>
> I want to use this method only since there are lots of rpm package
You are using the wrong sort of quote marks. Instead of:
'cat list'
You should have:
`cat list`
or (more clear in bash):
$(cat list)
Paul.
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