[ale] bash commands

[Drifter]

Thanks.  That did it.

sean

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On Friday, May 18, 2012 05:37:43 pm Robert L. Harris wrote:
> try ">" instead of "|"
> 
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> 
wrote:
> > I keep reminding myself that I don't begin to know what I think I
> > know! :(
> > 
> > I am about to upgrade this box, finally from FC 13 to FC 14.
> > Ought to be simple enough.  I have the CD, which I think will do a
> > clean install onto a software RAID.
> > 
> > Prior to that I really ought to have on hand a list of all the
> > installed packages.
> > 
> > So I created a file <app_list.txt> on the Desktop and then tried
> > this:
> > 
> > yum list installed | ~/Desktop/app_list.txt
> > and got back this
> > 
> > bash: /home/kilpatms/Desktop/app_list.txt: Permission denied
> > 
> > WTF!
> > 
> > So I checked the perms on the existing (empty) file and they were
> > correct. Then I tried the same thing as root, expanding the ~/ and
> > got the same response.
> > 
> > So, How DO I make yum throw a list of the installed packages to a
> > text file rather than to the terminal?
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> > 
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