On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:10:35AM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 04:18:21PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: > > Is there a way of telling patch (or some other equivalent tool) to only > > create a backup .orig file if one doesn't already exist? > > > > (The use case is apply two patches which both patch the same file, then > > run mkpatches, which only picks up the second patch as the second invocation > > of patch changed the .orig file which mkpatches is using as a baseline.) > > The original .orig are moved to .orig.orig, right? In which case > > for f in *.orig.orig; do > mv $f $(basename $f .orig) > done > > does the trick.
Right! P
