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Patch

http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html
GNU version of Larry Wall's program that takes "diff's" output and applies it to an original file to generate a modified version of that file. Normally, the patched versions are put in place of the originals. Backups can be made.

Documentation

User manual included

Related Projects

• CVSps
• Diffutils
• LibXDiff
• Patchutils
• Patchwork
• Wdiff
• Gawk

This is a GNU package

Download

Download version 2.6.1 (stable)
released on 30 December 2009

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Software-development:small-specific-development-task
• Use:software-development

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
GPLv2	Kelly Hopkins	2455203.57 January 2010

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Andreas Gruenbacher	Maintainer
Christopher R. Gabriel	Maintainer
David MacKenzie	Contributor
Wayne Davison	Contributor

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Developer	Mailing List Subscribe	http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/patch-commit
Developer	Download	http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/
Bug Tracking	E-mail	mailto:bug-patch@gnu.org
Developer	Homepage	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch
Bug Tracking	Bug Tracking	http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=patch
Bug Tracking	Mailing List Subscribe	http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-patch

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This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 1 May 2010.

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