On 09/10/08 18:49, John Hasler wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
Then that should be:
$ patch --gen-diff
$ patch --apply-diff
The diff command predates the patch command by many years (it was in System
III) and does far more than generate files suitable for application by
patch, which was written by Larry Wall in 1984.
Correct. But Kamaraju S Kusumanchi asserts that "The main purpose
of diff is to generate a patch", and I was pointing out the logical
conclusion of his statement.
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Jefferson LA USA
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