[Linux-disciples] patch(1)

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:50:04PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> 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.

Sorry; I've been rather vague in the descriptions because I
figured this was all very trivial stuff that someone could
correct without much detail. If you do

diff -u -r [dir1] [dir2] | patch -b -p1 [dir3] -

you get an error that [dir3] is a directory, which is
exactly true.

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