Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!princeton!allegra!alice!ark
From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: A question concerning diff
Message-ID: <6016@alice.uUCp>
Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 17:06:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.6016
Posted: Wed Sep  3 17:06:02 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Sep-86 00:39:38 EDT
References: <194@wolf.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
Lines: 9

> Is there a program, command, anything, that will take two files
> {
>	1. An old text file
>	2. A "diff" format file
> }
> and make the changes listed in #2 on #1 and create file #3, the new text file?

diff -e file1 file2    produces a file that when given as input
to `ed' will transform file1 into file2.