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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: help with diff
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1993 17:59:50 GMT
Message-ID: <CEA7Bq.2Cr@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
References: <CE5B76.Cuu@eskimo.com>
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In <CE5B76.Cuu@eskimo.com> storm@eskimo.com (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
>	I tried diff -c, but this didn't seem to take into consideration
>	new files and removed files.

If you're using GNU diff you can use the -rcN options.  That takes
care of the new files.  Most versions of patch can't handle deleted
files though.
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