Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:05:39 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: John Williams cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Binary patch tool? In-Reply-To: <3E8CCA9C.9010502@itee.uq.edu.au> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, John Williams wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, John Williams wrote: > > > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>Is there a binary equivalent to the diff/patch combination? I've > >>written a little shell script to run "cmp -b" over a bunch of files (I'm > >>trying to generate binary patches), but now I'm struggling with a way to > >>actually apply those changes. > >> > >>I started writing a little tcl script to do it but think there must be a > >>better way? > >> > >>Thanks, > >>John > > > > Umm, "vim -b"? vim *can* be used as a stream editor... > > Igor > > Ah yes excellent! Even better, now I don't need to create a patch file. > In a single line I can hack Xilinx's Xygwin tools over to Cygwin. > > I'm doing the following > > for f in $( find edk -name '*.exe' -o -name '*.dll' ) do > vim -b -s xyg2cyg.sed $f > done > > where xyg2cyg.sed contains > :%s/xygwin1.dll/cygwin1.dll/g > :wq > > Is there a way I can pass these on the command line, without needing a > seperate little script file like this? > > Thanks, > John Sure. The easiest for you would probably be vim -b -c ":%s/xygwin1.dll/cygwin1.dll/g|:wq" $f Ain't vim grand? ;-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- 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/