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remove multiple rpm packages using one bash command

I'd like to use a single bash command to uninstall several packages.

# rpm -qa | grep php

php-common-5.4.16-45.el7.x86_64
php-5.4.16-45.el7.x86_64
php-mysql-5.4.16-45.el7.x86_64
php-pdo-5.4.16-45.el7.x86_64
php-cli-5.4.16-45.el7.x86_64

will give me an output of all the pakcages I'd like to remove, however, how can I pipe that into a remove package command? Something like this:

# rpm -qa | grep php | yum remove ${package}
Solution

  • I tried this and it worked.

    rpm -qa | grep php | while read -r line; do yum remove -y $line; done