patch not working on Windows 7 x64

[marco atzeri]

On 7/23/2012 9:20 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
> I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64 and when I run just 'patch', it
> hangs and never returns. If I do 'patch --help', help is printed just
> fine. I'm not sure why this is happening.
>
> Any help getting this working?
>

Are you sure to have read the manual ?
 From "man patch"
---------------------------------------------
NAME
        patch - apply a diff file to an original

SYNOPSIS
        patch [options] [originalfile [patchfile]]

        but usually just

        patch -pnum <patchfile
[cut]
------------------------------------------------
if you give no patchfile "patch" is waiting the diff
from stdin, so it is not hanging at all

Marco


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