[plug] Finding RPM Summary

[Earnshaw, Mike]

Lists,

Thanks for the feedback with regard to finding a file within an
uninstalled RPM. The biggest hurdle I faced was knowing which complete
path I was looking for as (on my box) I could not get any wildcards to
work i.e. *patch, so I needed to know the absolute path.

The solution I favoured was from Daryl (LinuxSA)..

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for file in `find /mnt/cdrom -name "*.rpm" -print`; do
    echo "===" ${file}
    rpm -qlp ${file}
    echo
done > RedHat_6.x_filelist

Then grep/less/vi/whatever are your bestest friends.
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I will adopt this as standard practice from now on. Thanks all.

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