Robert P. J. Day wrote:
ok, i finally narrowed down what my issue with patch was. let's say that i have the absolute name of a patch file, $PATCH, and the absolute name of a directory, $DIR, in which that patch should be applied (with -p1, it turns out). what will work nicely is:
$ patch -d $DIR -p1 < $PATCH
what will *not* work is:
$ patch -d $DIR -force -p1 < $PATCH
now, before you all point out the obvious typo (it should be either "-f" or "--force", not "-force"), what happens is that *no* warning is given, and patch appears to run normally, assuring me that, yes, files are all being patched properly, when in fact, nothing of the sort is happening.
argh.
rday
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Single character options can be stacked. So just as one can do ls -l -r or ls -lr one can combine the "patch -f -o" as "patch -fo".
And if you look you will find there is a newly created file named "rce" which contains the patched output. That is because the -o option takes a following token as the output file, so "patch -force" is the same as "patch -f -o rce"
There was no error because you specified valid, albeit undesirable, options.
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