rpm installing using for loop

Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshriyan at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 11:33:54 UTC 2006


Thanks Paul

On 1/24/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 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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