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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:09:07 -0800
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using diff
Message-ID:  <20081121060907.GA9934@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <49264FE3.20809@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <49264FE3.20809@a1poweruser.com>

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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Trying to use diff program to create a patch.
> Output gos to console and does not create the patch file.
>
> If it do   diff original updated > patch.file
>
> The patch.file does not look like a normal patch file.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?

Try ``diff -u original updates > patch.file''.

Bill
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