From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 14:42: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2C137B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400AC43E4A for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:42:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b180.otenet.gr [212.205.244.188]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h07Mg4U8008586; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:42:04 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h07Mg3gX024829; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:42:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h07Mg3xp024828; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:42:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:42:03 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brian Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patching Message-ID: <20030107224203.GA24774@gothmog.gr> References: <20030107124741.O39895@entwistle.sonicboom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030107124741.O39895@entwistle.sonicboom.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-01-07 12:51, Brian wrote: > Right at the top of the patch man page it says: > but usually just > patch > I missed the <, my bad although that is most nonintuitive, wtf ever > happened to command argument? If it needs to read a textfile then > have it read what I put in. Well, a lot of programs on UNIX work as `filters'. There's nothing wrong with that :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message