yum update / install from file

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 07:52 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Tony Crouch wrote:
> > Hi All, 
> > I was wondering if anyone knows whether its possible to update yum from
> > a file containing a list of packages (one per line).
> > 
> > I have tried:
> > 
> > yum -y install < file-name
> 
> Better: yum -y install $(cat filename)
> 
> makes from the lines of filename the options list (package list) for yum.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Joachim Backes
> 
Will yum handle the lf chars in the file filename? I don't think so.
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