How to install a bunch of packages in a list?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 21:34, Jeremy Lavergne
<jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org>wrote:

> > Here is the command and the list of packages that I got:
> > http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1705726929
> >
> > Well, I have this list, it's good, but what I would like to do is just
> install everyone of those packages.  Any ideas?
>
> Instead of `port list` maybe `port echo "*ocaml*"`. At that point, you can
> pipe it through tr to have a space-delimited list, or you can have bash for
> loop across them.
>

You don't need to remap the newlines; the output of a command in `` or $()
is word-split, not line-split, and \n is just another kind of space as far
as the word splitting algorithm in the shell is concerned.


> sudo port -p install `port echo "*ocaml*" | tr '\n' ' '`
>

    $ sudo port -p install `port echo "*ocaml*"`

works just fine.

That said, that's still more work than is needed; last I checked, glob
patterns worked perfectly fine but need to be escaped from the shell.  (In
fact, that they work with "port echo" should have told you this.)

    $ sudo port -p install '*ocaml*'

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