On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:21:30AM +0200, soko.tica wrote: > Hello list, > > ## Those wanting to respond by RTFM, please just ignore me / > > I need to check the difference between sources in anoncvs and the > source I fetched to apply the latest patch in -stable. However: > > # cvs -nt diff -c -rOPENBSD_4_5 > ... > cvs server: Diffing usr.sbin/ztsscale > == > > produces the output too large for one screen, and I can't see any line > ending with + while
diff marks lines at the beginning, not the end. > == > # cvs -nt diff -c -rOPENBSD_4_5 | 2>&1 /somewhere/diff.txt > -> main loop with [email protected]:/cvs > -> Starting server: ssh anoncvs.de.openbsd.org -l anoncvs cvs server > ksh: /somewhere/diff.txt: cannot execute - Permission denied > == > > How should I properly check it? How would a line showing difference look like? you're piping (|) to a file. that's wrong. you should pipe to a command, or redirect (>) to a file: $ cvs diff -u | less $ cvs diff -u > /tmp/diff I also suggest dropping -nt from the cvs command as well as using -u instead of -c for the diff. ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/ contains some diffs to look at as examples. > > Many thanks in advance to anyone bothering to respond. I still think you need to do some rtfming. maybe even get a book on Unix basics. -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
