On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:53:46PM +0530, 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@bdc31096e root]# > [root@bdc31096e root]# cat list > sylpheed-1.0.0-3.i386.rpm > dmidecode-2.5-2.i586.rpm > [root@bdc31096e root]# > > I want to use this method only since there are lots of rpm package > > Thanks in Advance > > Regards > > Kaushal Not sure of your exact situation, but you can pass regexes to rpm and have it do all of that. For instance, if you have all of the files you need ins a dir somewhere and you want to install all of those files you could: rpm -ivh /path/to/packages/*rpm This can be nice as rpm will figure out the appropriate order to install the packages if there are dependencies within them. Chris
