(Your Mail-Followup-To: is broken, by the way, as it doesn't give your domain: "Mail-Followup-To: josh, debian-user@lists.debian.org".)
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:10:23AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > 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 #!/bin/sh should be fine for most simple shell scripts (and many complex ones too). > cat file | (IFS=" " ; while read prog; do apt-get install --reinstall $prog; > done) If file contains newlines, then your IFS setting will be too strict. Personally, I'd use 'xargs apt-get --reinstall install < file'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
