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Old 06-19-2009, 11:57 PM   #1
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apt-get, redirected input

Is it possible to send a list of items to apt-get for example,

cat mylist.txt

A
B
C

and pipe it to apt-get remove?
 
Old 06-20-2009, 01:36 AM   #2
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I'm sure it could be done..but how about doing everything in a for-loop instead?
 
Old 06-20-2009, 01:47 PM   #3
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Cool, I did that, and it worked great!

#!/bin/sh
for i in `cat mylist`
do
apt-get remove -y $i
done
 
Old 06-21-2009, 01:51 AM   #4
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Glad I could help.
 
  


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