gulp-htmlmin | gulp plugin to minify HTML | Frontend Framework library

I want to install a list of packages from a simple text file (yes, package.json is what this was designed for)

my first approach was this:

npm i $(cat builder-dev-packages.txt) -g similar to this: docker rm $(docker ps -a -f status=exited -q)

But I'm still getting that command evaluated as an invalid tag name.

npm ERR! code EINVALIDTAGNAME ": Tags may not have any characters that encodeURIComponent encodes.

Do I need to run through my npm command with a while loop instead of evaluating the output of a cat statement? This script still provides the same error for each line in the txt file.