Shell script to call apt-get install --reinstall

[Josh McKinney]

I am trying to call a shell script to reinstall all packages.  I have a file
that lists all installed packages called "file".  The problem is when I call the
script it just goes by saying it couldn't find the package.
Here is the script.

#!/bin/bash

cat file | (IFS=" " ; while read prog; do apt-get install --reinstall $prog; 
done)

Thanks
Josh
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