Re: Determining the software list on machines in my network

Since you are using rpms, you could use rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\t%{version}\t%{release}\t%{arch}\n' | sort >pkg-list to keep the name away from the version etc. Substitute ',' for '\t' and you get a csv format. Of course you can delete all the version stuff if you want to just compare what packages you have, and then worry about version differences. Diff output can be hard to read, so I would use the -u diff option to get the context of the changes - more lines in the output but easier to see what is in or out.