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 Message-ID: <3EDC3908.8000805@rbcmail.ru> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 01:58:32 -0400 From: Constantine User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello! I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the patch(1) utility, I am always being asked to type in the file name to a file that needs to be patched. My diff file contains a diff on a few files, and this is my dialogue with the patch(1): --- my quote start --- >patch --ignore-whitespace -p0 -i US-GB.nohtml.diff can't find file to patch at input line 2 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff -b -B --exclude='*.*htm*' -r en-US/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf en-GB/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf -------------------------- File to patch: en-GB/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf patching file en-GB/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] y can't find file to patch at input line 21 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff -b -B --exclude='*.*htm*' -r en-US/.jar/communicator/bookmarks/addBookmark.dtd en-GB/.jar/communicator/bookmarks/addBookmark.dtd -------------------------- File to patch: --- my quote end --- and so on. As one can see, I have to re-type the filename just in the same manner as it was printed by patch(1), before the patch can be applied. How can I make the patch(1) utility not to ask for the name, but to find it from the diff file? Thanks. Cheers, Constantine. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/