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):
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>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:
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|diff -b -B --exclude='*.*htm*' -r en-US/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf en-GB/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf
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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:
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|diff -b -B --exclude='*.*htm*' -r en-US/.jar/communicator/bookmarks/addBookmark.dtd en-GB/.jar/communicator/bookmarks/addBookmark.dtd
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File to patch:
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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.
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