{"id":372,"date":"2013-01-20T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2013\/01\/20\/patch-is-a-unix-program-that-updates-text-files-according-to-instructions-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia\/"},"modified":"2013-01-20T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T21:00:00","slug":"patch-is-a-unix-program-that-updates-text-files-according-to-instructions-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2013\/01\/20\/patch-is-a-unix-program-that-updates-text-files-according-to-instructions-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia\/","title":{"rendered":"patch is a Unix program that updates text files according to instructions \u2026 &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patch_(Unix)\">patch (Unix) &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article includes &#8220;usage examples&#8221;, and it refers to another article named &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diff#Variations\">diff variations<\/a>&#8220;, which is quite useful to read for better understanding of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody&#8221; requested me to test critical software and to keep the number of changes to the software itself minimal. He suggested, I should find a way of creating the changes, that I think are necessary to ease my testing, automatically, ie. to sort of &#8220;patch&#8221; the original file. After I had gotten told that a couple of times, it clicked in my upper storey. Why not use the homonymous UNIX utility? This may not be very innovative, but it somehow enraptured me.<\/p>\n<p>On AIX patch and &#8220;diff -u&#8221; don&#8217;t seem to work together.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>patch (Unix) &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The article includes &#8220;usage examples&#8221;, and it refers to another article named &#8220;diff variations&#8220;, which is quite useful to read for better understanding of the matter. &#8220;Somebody&#8221; requested me to test critical software and to keep the number of changes to the software itself minimal. He suggested, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-60","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}