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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20040215/fbd49e6e/attachment.bin