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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:17:32 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: patching a file with blanks in the name
Message-ID:  <42A9F55C.1060501@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200506101239.17128.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
References:  <200506101239.17128.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

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Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> How does one make a patch for a while, that has blanks in the path:
> 
> --- foo bar/meow~	Fri Mar 11 09:00:49 2005
> +++ foo bar/meow	Fri Jun 10 12:17:22 2005
> -	a = 0;
> +	a = 1;
> 
> With the above example, patch searches only for `foo', then gives up and asks 
> for help. I tried quoting the entire file name and escaping the blanks with 
> backslashes -- neither method works... Any ideas? Thanks!

There was a discussion and maybe even a fix proposed for this issue on one of 
the GNU lists, probably <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>?  Anyway, I don't think the 
current release version of patch will handle paths containing spaces...

-- 
-Chuck



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