Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given?

[Constantine]

Max Bowsher wrote:

>Constantine wrote:
>  
>
>>Andrew Markebo wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>Just a guess, I usually throw -p1 or more, not -p0? Could it be that?
>>>
>>>    /Andy
>>>
>>>/ Constantine <cnst@rbcmail.ru> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hello!
>>>>
>>>>I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the
>>>>patch(1) utility, I am always being asked to type in the file name to
>>>>a file that needs to be patched. My diff file contains a diff on a few
>>>>files, and this is my dialogue with the patch(1):
>>>>
>>>>--- my quote start ---
>>>> >patch --ignore-whitespace -p0 -i US-GB.nohtml.diff
>>>>can't find file to patch at input line 2
>>>>Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
>>>>The text leading up to this was:
>>>>--------------------------
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>diff -b -B --exclude='*.*htm*' -r en-US/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>en-GB/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf
>>>>--------------------------
>>>>File to patch: en-GB/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf
>>>>patching file en-GB/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf
>>>>        
>>>>
>
>Perhaps your patch file is corrupt.
>Please post the first 10 lines of it.
>
>
>Max.
>

--- start ---
diff -b -B --exclude='*.*htm*' -r en-US/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf 
en-GB/.jar/autoconfig/contents.rdf
7c7
<     <RDF:li resource="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US"/>
---
 >     <RDF:li resource="urn:mozilla:locale:en-GB"/>
11c11
<   <RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US">
---
 >   <RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:locale:en-GB">
--- end ---

I want to emphasise, that the line "diff ..." is the first one, though 
patch(1) is saying that it is the second one.

Cheers,
Constantine.


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