[comp.unix.wizards] Automatically effecting diff's

David_Yoshio_Macias@cup.portal.com (09/09/88)

I'm wondering if there's any tool out there to take diff files
created with a diff command of the form 'diff -c#' (where #
is some number like 2 or 3) and make the changes to the appopriate
file automatically.  I realize that if 'diff -e' was used, ed would
serve this purpose.  But 'diff -e' wasn't used, so right now I'm just
using Emacs with the upper window having the diff file and the
lower one having the target file ... very tedious!

Does anyone out there have a better solution?  Thanks!


Roy Bixler
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jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) (09/23/88)

In article <8906@cup.portal.com> David_Yoshio_Macias@cup.portal.com writes:
>... if there's any tool out there to take diff files created with a diff
>command of the form 'diff -c#'... and make the changes to the appopriate
>file automatically.

Yes, there is 'patch'. Search through the indices of comp.unix.sources.

I believe it will work either on old-style diff input, or the contextual
differences too
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