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Date:      2 Nov 2020 18:22:31 -0500
From:      "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        peo@nethead.se
Subject:   Re: simple shell script to compare two dirs recursively
Message-ID:  <20201102232232.515C62548A9E@ary.qy>
In-Reply-To: <66b0d570-4e46-7971-5d30-33256feeda55@nethead.se>

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In article <66b0d570-4e46-7971-5d30-33256feeda55@nethead.se> you write:
>It is to keep track of a Wordpress plugin that we must do changes to in 
>the php code, I'm just trying to figure out a way to apply our changes 
>after the plugin is updated and our alterations are overwritten.
>
>In a way that is simple, that is.

I'd try using diff -r -C3 to find the diffs and patch to apply the diffs.

Patch is pretty good at finding where the diffs go if the files have
changed a little.

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