#!/bin/sh ROOT_UID=0 # Only users with $UID 0 have root privileges. E_NOTROOT=67 # Non-root exit error. # Run as root, of course. if [ "$UID" -ne "$ROOT_UID" ]; then echo "Must be root to run this script." exit $E_NOTROOT fi echo "Should have a file remove1 with a list of packages to remove." yum erase -y $(tr '\n' ' ' < remove1)