From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 19:20:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C195B37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA9443E65 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:20:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:19:59 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id B142CBA12; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:19:50 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , "Jon Reynolds" , "'questions@FreeBSD. ORG'" Subject: Re: diff patch Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:19:50 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <01d401c232a0$eba65d60$51ec910c@fbccarthage.com> In-Reply-To: <01d401c232a0$eba65d60$51ec910c@fbccarthage.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207232219.50475.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 23 July 2002 07:30 pm, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: | patch diff.txt > orig.file Please don't top-post on this list. Also, that's not the right patch syntax. It's patch < diff-file (the patch should have the source file to which it applies already embedded in the patch) If the file name isn't embedded, then you can do it as patch orig.file diff-file but never redirect *out* of patch. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message