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[Brian J. Tarricone]

JoeHill wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:56:29 +0100
> Mike Massonnet got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
> 
>> So you will be able to set the opacity of the solid background.
> 
> Okay, I really, really tried. I read 'man patch', and followed their examples.
> I used googe/linux altogether too much, for howtos, guides, nothing I read led
> me to being able to apply the patch. Every way I run the command, I just
> get...nothing, no output (despite adding -v), it just sits...eventually, I just
> ctrl-c. I can see from the patchfile the file it wants to patch, and so of
> course I tried patch <patchfile> <targetfile>, same thing.
> 
> I'm sorry, but how the heck do I apply this patch? :-)

Well, you could try this google search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+use+patch
The first link returned tells you what command to use.  Note that you're 
missing one crucial shell metacharacter: '<'.  'patch' does not read 
files on its own; it can only read files from stdin.

Actually, the manpage also points out the correct command line.  Note 
the '-p' option; depending on how the patch was generated, you may need 
to mess with it.

(The reason it's sitting there waiting is because it's expecting input 
on stdin.  The '<' character tells the shell to feed the contents of the 
following filename to the process' stdin.  You can also do
'cat file | patch -p1' to achieve the same effect.)

On a side note, I strongly recommend that anyone using 'patch' first run 
it with the '--dry-run' parameter to make sure it applies correctly. 
Removing a half-applied patch can be a pain if it doesn't.  If it works 
OK, just run the command again, but without '--dry-run'.

	-brian