topic comand diff in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

comand diff

Dafnis Tejera — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:00:43 GMT

Hi,

Someone sendme a file patch.diff to resolve a problem with a source program.

How can I use a comand diff to patch a source with this file?
I probe with
diff -e patch.diff badsourse > newsource

but, didn't work.

help me please

Re: comand diff

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:35:46 GMT

Diff files patches are normally applied with the patch command, like this:

patch -p1 < filename.diff

Ask to the person who sent to you the diff file for exact instructions and arguments.