NAME

apply-patch - apply a patch against the current directory, automatically detecting the patch strip level

SYNOPSIS

apply-patch PATCHFILE|URL

DESCRIPTION

apply-patch is a simply wrapper for the patch(1) utility. It has two usability advantages over using patch(1) alone, in the simple case of applying a patch:

1) it automatically detects the patch strip level (the -p parameter to patch(1))

2) it takes the patch file in as a parameter, rather than as a stream on STDIN

Note that PATCHFILE can also be an http or https URL, if you have the wget(1) utility installed.

SEE ALSO

patch(1), wget(1)

AUTHOR

This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.