On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:45:17PM -0800, Ben Ocean wrote:
> patch -pl < the.patch.gz
> while in the directory and got this error:
> "patch: **** strip count l is not a number"
> What does that mean and what do I do now?
[1] "man patch". Note that -p takes a number as argument, not a letter,
and that patch can't process gzip'd patches.
[2] The command line you're probably looking for is:
gzcat the.patch.gz | patch -p1
[3] You sound like you're fairly new to *nix in general, so pick up a
*nix book at your favorite bookstore.
- Adrian
