[Yum] How to get yum to read package names from a file

[Garrick Staples]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:22:29PM -0600, Satish Balay alleged:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Alex Eskin wrote:
> 
> > I tried   "xargs foo | yum install" 
> 
> cat foo | xargs yum install

That doesn't work.  yum will backtrace when it tries to prompt the user.  The
solution is to add -y, which the original email expressly forbade.

Perhaps something simple like:
  yum install `cat foo`


-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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