RPM Commands
Bill Crawford
billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Thu May 8 15:06:30 UTC 2008
2008/5/8 Luciano Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org>:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:38:51PM +0200, Robert McBroom (TNWestTex) wrote:
> > How do you get yum to accept input from the pipe?
>
> Sorry, my bad. It's like with rpm:
> rpm -qa | grep fc4 | xargs yum remove
You'll need '-y' to make this work, as otherwise yum will read
standard input (and exit, as it will receive an EOF on it).
> (i.e., don't forget the xargs)
>
> Another way of using it is: yum remove $(rpm -qa | grep fc4)
The only way to do it interactively (i.e. still be able to press y/n).
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