On Saturday 01 Nov 2003 10:56 pm, Wesley T Allen wrote: > Simon, worked like a charm. I knew about the patch command, but I've > always been confused by -p#, skimming man patch made me think it's just the > level of checks that it does during the patch, is this correct? I can > output a log by tagging > patch.log at the end too right?
The -p# tells patch how much of the initial directory path to strip off before looking for the file to patch. eg if the patch file contains the following: scribus-1.1.2.orig/scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/cmdvar.h -p1 would make patch look for the file: scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/cmdvar.h Yes, > patch.log will create a file with the messages patch writes to stdout. To get stderr messages in the file too, use &> instead of > (see man bash) Simon
