you'll have to put the argument in a variable and pass it that way.
try this:
rpm -qa > x
set `head -n 1 x`
rpm -qi $1
the problem here is that it only gives you the info on the first package.
a better approach (if you want to see all packages) might be:
for package in `rpm -qa`
do
rpm -qi $package
done
this will show them all at once.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to learn scripting and getting rid of some unnecessary rpm
> packages at the same time here's what I'm doing
>
> rpm -qa > x
> head -n 1 x | rpm -qi this part dosen't work
> it gives an error of "rpm: no arguments given for query"
>
> I've also tried
>
> head -n 1 x > tmp
> rpm -qi < tmp which give the same error as above
>
> how do I pass info to rpm? using bash?
>
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