seth vidal wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 22:42 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> Wil Cooley wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 12:24 +0100, cybernet(a)interia.pl wrote:
>>
>>> # get a list of items
>>> # remove 4 lines from top (tac/head/tac)
>>> # try to update one item at a time
>>> for k in `yum list updates | awk '{ print $1 }' | tac | head -n-4 |
>>> tac`; do yum -y update
>>> $k; done
>> UUOTac? Try "sed '1,4d'" instead of the tac|head|tac stuff.
Or better,
>> use an awk range to filter the output:
>>
>> awk '/^Setting up/,/^Updated Packages/{next};{print $1}'
>>
>> Although this might be better, because it could be used with '-e 0 -d 0'
>> consistently:
>>
>> awk 'FNR==1,/^Updated Packages/ {next}; {print}'
>>
>> Wil
>>
> The problem with any of these are that long package names gets mangled
> in the yum output and i haven't found a place to tweak that.
>
an EXCELLENT reason to never rely on screenscraping.
-sv
Agreed! That's why something like this should work closer to yum!
/Thomas