[Linux-disciples] patch(1)

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:42:58PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> diff -u helps here, definitely. Here's the command line I'd
> like to use:
> diff -u -r /home/slaniel/wordpress/wordpress-2.0.2-{joel,orig} |patch -p1 -b /home/slaniel/wordpress/wordpress-2.0.3-orig/
> which would somehow recursively patch the files in
> wordpress-2.0.3-orig with the diffs between all the files in
> the first two listed directories. But that doesn't work.

Why doesn't it work? What happens? I would break it down into diff >
file, and then patch -p1 file. It may just be a path/depth issue.
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