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From: rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: A question concerning diff
Message-ID: <791@investor.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Sep-86 15:30:46 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  7 15:30:46 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Sep-86 02:23:08 EDT
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> > 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?
> 
> The Sys III manual for diff(1) claims that diff -e file1 file2 will
> produce "a script of a, c and d commands for the editor ed, which will
> recreate file2 from file1."
> 
> I haven't tried it, but I assume something like the following might work.
> 
> 	ed file1 < diffs > file2
> 
> 	 	    Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA

Bad assumption.  The manual also gives the solution.

	(cat diffs; echo '1,$p') | ed - file1 > file2
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