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Re: I've been caught out

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On 2022-01-25 09:12:52 +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> writes:
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 05:01:21AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1  ../patches/*.patch
> > 
> > That's not how you do it.  patch(1) can only accept one patch at a time,
> > and it expects to see it on standard input.
> > 
> > for p in ../patches/*.patch; do patch -p1 < "$p"; done
> 
> You can even do the somewhat easier
> 
>     cat ../patches/*.patch | patch -p1
> 
> which will do the same.  

Even easier (works with zsh, multios enabled, which is the default):

  patch -p1 < ../patches/*.patch

> However, often the order of patches is important when some patch
> depends on another being applied before.  Then *.patch will probably
> not work since it applies patches in alphabetical order.

Sometimes patch names are prepended with a number with a fixed number
of digits (e.g., 3) to make sure that this works.

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I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-24 11:10 +0100
  Re: I've been caught out "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-01-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-24 12:10 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-24 12:20 +0100
        Re: I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-24 21:40 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-01-24 12:40 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2022-01-24 13:20 +0100
  Re: I've been caught out <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: I've been caught out <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-24 21:40 +0100
    Re: I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-24 21:40 +0100
  Re: I've been caught out Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-24 13:50 +0100
    Re: I've been caught out Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2022-01-25 09:20 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-01-25 13:50 +0100
        Re: I've been caught out <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-25 14:10 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-25 13:50 +0100
        Re: I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-25 18:00 +0100

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