zypper one liner to show patch-info for available patches?

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#1

Anyone have a good console one liner to output the patch-info for all available patches?

something like:
zypper lp | cut ??? | zypper patch-info

#2

While you can of course make every bunch of bash commands into a one liner by putting everything on one line with ; at the end of each command, that does not make it more understandable ;).

The following does shoe nice results here:

#!/bin/bash
zypper ref
zypper lp | grep 'Update' | while IFS='|' read X P X
do      zypper patch-info ${P}
done

And that can be typed in one long line as:

zypper ref ; zypper lp | grep 'Update' | while IFS='|' read X P X ; do zypper patch-info ${P} ; done

Well, the forums software may brake down this into two lines, but it is in facct one line.

#3

nice one, thanks

#4

Hi,

This is my version, without the grep.

zypper lp | while IFS='|' read -ra line; do  ${line[0]} = *update* ]] && zypper patch-info "${line[1]}"; done

or

while IFS='|' read -ra line; do  ${line[0]} = *update* ]] && zypper patch-info "${line[1]}"; done < <(zypper lp)
#5

You should add these to commandlinefu.com :slight_smile: