begin quote On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:33:25 -0500 Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, this is where I get to look all sheepish, but I have never been > able to figure out the patch command. The man page itself does not > clear anything up and I haven't been able to find anything via google > that is not just a reprint of the man page or simply a reference to > use patch. > > Can anyone point me to a good reference for how to use patch? > patch reads a patch file (as generated by diff) from standard in. so either cat file.patch |patch or patch < file.patch They are the same. patch also takes some options to mangle the incoming patch in different ways, most notorious of theese is the -p command, which simply tells it how many parts (from left to right, / separated) of the path it shall drop before it either finds a file, or gives up if a patch is "unclean" (the existing data doesn't match the expected data) there is either fuzz (when the data is there but a bit away) or reject (generating a new , smaller patch file called filename.rej inside the tree) so, basically patch is a recipie for : look at line 23 to 26 in file blabber for FOO BAR BAZ Change that to DOFUS FOO BAR //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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