Re: yum list available weird output
Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote: > Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, 5 May 2009, James Antill wrote: >> >>> Gerry Reno <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> I run this command: >>>> yum -q list available $(rpm -qa --queryformat=%{name}\n) | grep "^ " >>>> 1.0.0-2.fc11 >>>> preupgrade >>>> 0.1.0-6.fc11 >>>> preupgrade >>> >>> Pipe the "yum list available" output through less, and you'll see >>> what is happening. In general we don't recommend screen scrapping yum >>> output, writing a yum script is often significantly easier (and >>> supported). >>> >>> For what I _think_ you are trying to do above, you probably just want >>> "yum list updates" or "yum check-update" output. >> >> and if you feel you MUST use a script to do this: look at repoquery from >> yum-utils. >> >> -sv > Ok, through 'less' I can see that the output is being forced onto a second > line. But rather than do that, it would be better to just push the output out > by $COLUMNS and it would look exactly the same but still be on the same line. did you see what I just said? yum is NOT intended to be screen scraped. Either write a python script or use repoquery. -sv