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Add a line to a file section unless it exists [migrated]
I have a file that looks like this:
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%ldirs
(list of line-separated directories)
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With a shell script, I need to add a directory to the list in that file, but only if that directory is not ...
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How to prevent patch from creating backup files?
I'm writing some code that will apply the patch(1) program, and I want to completely prevent it from creating backup files. That is, I don't want it to create foo.orig files when it either fails to ...
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Atomic application of unix patch
I have prepared a "patch" to my customer who will need to manually apply it to their code. If patch is applied partially due to conflicts then the whole procedure needs to be immediately reversed.
I ...
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An Application to describe .patch files
Do you know any application that be able to describe .patch files?
I mean an application that be able to get .patch file & give me a human readable of the changes it make on files so I'll be able ...
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Tool to create a patch that modifies/adds files within a directory structure
I have a set of files that need a set of changes applied to them.
In this scenario I have a Java Application Server (distributed via a zip file) that I need to apply a set of known configurations to, ...
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compiling curl with HipHop for PHP Patch [closed]
I'm following this guide: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Building-and-installing-on-ubuntu-10.10
It want's me to download curl source, doing the patch and compile this. well, but i get ...
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jump to file/line of current patch hunk in vim
If I'm viewing a multi-file diff in vim - for example the one produced by running :VCSDiff in a netrw buffer - and I position my cursor over a particular hunk, is there a way to jump to the affected ...
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How-to apply diff on reorganized files?
I have one patch which was picked from repo A, and now I need to apply it on repo B.
Repo A:
src\
kill_kenny.c
kill_dolphin.c
Repo B:
src1\
kill_kenny.c
src2\
kill_dolphin.c
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How do I apply a patch to my Linux kernel?
I am trying to compile the iscsi-target software SCST. It wants me to apply a patch to my Linux kernel in order to allow for certain performance gains. The problem is I still new to Linux development. ...
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Binary diff/patch for large files on linux?
I've got two partition images (A and B) and want to use them to create a patch that I can apply on A on another computer in order to get the new B image without flooding the network. I have the ...
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How do i apply a patch to Synergy in Mac OS X
I have downloaded a patch for a keyboard problem in Synergy for my mac but have no idea how to use it
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Windows 7 Enterprise: Cannot connect to internet using BSNL modem
I have a BSNL modem, which worked fine with Windows Vista. After I started using Windows 7 Enterprise, I found that I couldn't connect to the net using the modem (keep getting Error 651). It seems ...
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Patching the background image preferences of gnome-terminal 2.30.2 in Ubuntu 10.04.1 installed with wubi
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu with wubi again and i wanted to configure my own gnome-terminal as i want i to look. I want a background image and the standard-preferences are not very good. i want the ...
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Binary diff file
I have installed an unofficial patch to an application I am using, which essentially uses unix's patch command to apply a binary diff file to a directory. It appears to me it modifies the object files ...
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Zune Last-day-of-leap-year bug - did Microsoft release a fix? [closed]
When the Zune 30's had the outage on the last day of 2008, there was a side discussion about how long it would take for Microsoft to create a fix.
After the dust settled, the problem "fixed itself" ...
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Where the Ubuntu's source can be gotten?
Where can I get Ubuntu's source code? Actually I want It's kernel's code. I know I can get the kernel from kernel.org but as I found out that Ubuntu does some patching on the kernel I want to know ...
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Do distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora costomize their own kernels?
As I was trying to do some patching on Ubuntu's kernel I've found out kernel.org's patches cannot be merged correctly with the kernel source. I'm wondering if distributions like Ubuntu have their own ...
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How to apply patch to Gnome on Ubuntu
My system has been crashing, and I think it may have something to do with Gnome since the crashes only occur when I'm using it. I checked the log file after a crash and it reported...
Gtk-CRITICAL ...
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Windows 2000 will be end of life on the next patch day, but will it still receive patches on that day?
I still have a few old Win9x VMs I can no longer reinstall because their update services do not longer work. So, I'd like to use WSUS Offline Update to burn a CD with all Windows 2000 updates after ...
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How much bandwidth is used by security updates?
Does anyone have a ballpark figure on how much bandwidth is used on average each month by Windows 7 for security updates / patches?
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Navigating to next hunk in a patch file using VIM
Some of us are familiar with patch failures like "Hunk #11 FAILED at 958." -- is there a command in VIM that allows me to go to, say, 11th hunk ... without having to manually count it? Even a shortcut ...
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What do these instructions mean in plain English?
I know it's for the linux program patch, but if I try to use it, I get the following error:
missing header for unified diff at line 4 of patch
malformed patch at line 5: quit
Instead, I'd like to ...
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Copy “%SystemRoot%\SoftwareDistribution\Download” to another computer
Is it possible (and safe) to copy the SoftwareDistribution\Download folder from one WinXP (a) machine to another (b) and then let update.microsoft.com do its thing on (b) minus the download time for ...
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tool to display patch file
What tools exist to display patch files? A text editor is usually good enough. ColorDiff can add color. Ideally though the tool would also show intra-line differences like KDiff3.
