Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3DDA8DD9.1080608@ntlworld.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:15:37 +0000 From: Parish User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021025 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: patch(1) (Win32) and path separators References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 19/11/2002 18:50 Igor Pechtchanski stood on a soap-box and preached to the unwashed masses: > Try 'patch -p0 --dry-run < filename'. That did it. Thanks Igor :-) I'd always assumed that without -p patch obeyed the path in the diff and that -p was only needed if, for example, the path in the diff was absolute and you needed a relative one. I didn't read all of the -p section in the manpage because it didn't seem to be what I needed, but /now/ I've read the last paragraph. Previously I'd been editing the diffs to replace '/' with '\' so it worked; I guess what was happening was that patch was interpreting the whole string a filename but the shell, or the system calls patch uses, were interpreting the '\' as path separators and therefore it worked? Thanks again for the help. Regards, Parish (who's going to make 'patch' an alias for 'patch -p0' ;-) ) > Igor -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/