Recently took delivery of a job lot of servers and got bored after the 1st server install of 7 patches so decided to sort out a script.
1st copied all the tar patches to /var/patches
2nd created a patchlist file of the 7 patches in date order
for name in $(cat /var/updates/patchlist)
do
tar -xvzf /var/updates/$\{name}.tgz
esxupdate -n -r file:/var/updates/$name update
done
Had a cup of tea, once completed, done my other post config. stuff and rebooted.
It worked for me.....good luck.
