"I need a list of all installed RPMs on my CentOS server. But I want it as a CSV file (comma separated values). How can I do this in BASH?"
Here's the command (all on one line) that will produce the output that you want:
rpm -qa --qf "\"$(uname -n)\",\"%{name}\",\"%{version}-%{release}\",\"%{vendor}\",\"%{license}\",\"%{summary}\"\n" > /tmp/software-list.csv
Now you can scp the file to your laptop, then open the file using MS-Excel (or your favorite spreadsheet program). It's been my experience that the vast majority of corporate laptop images are a version of Microsoft Windows. The only company I have ever worked for where this was not the case was Red Hat Inc.
