Hi, > > > 2) Should it be able to do a dry run, would be another flag > > > that can be used independently of -w? > > > > Yes it would be nice to support a dry run flag regardless of > > whether -w is specified or not. > > gnu patch supports --dry-run. It probably makes sense > to support this flag either way.
Or use available options. patch -o - <file.patch >/dev/null
