Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: PATCH (1) PATCH(1) NAME patch - a program for applying a diff file to an original SYNOPSIS patch [options] orig diff [+ [options] orig] DESCRIPTION Patch will take a patch file containing any of the three forms of differ- ence listing produced by the diff program and apply those differences to an original file, producing a patched version. By default, the patched version is put in place of the original, with the original file backed up to the same name with the extension ".orig", or as specified by the b switch. You may also specify where you want the output to go with a -o switch. If diff is omitted, or is a hyphen, the patch will be read from standard input. Upon startup, patch will attempt to determine the type of the diff file, unless over-ruled by a -c, -e, or -n switch. Context diffs ...