z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

Exit Values
Messages
Portability
v NLSPATH
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See Appendix F for more information.
0 Successful completion
1 Failure due to any of the following:
v Missing input files
v Too many files specified
v Inability to open a file
2 Unknown command-line option
Possible error messages include:
Too many files at name
You specified more files than paste can handle. The name given in the
error message is the name of the first file that paste could not open. The
number of files that paste can open depends on the number of files that
other processes have open.
POSIX.2, X/Open Portability Guide, UNIX System V.
patch — Change a file using diff output
Format
Description
Options
patch [–bceflNnRsv] [–B prefix] [–D symbol] [–d dir] [–F n]
[–i patchfile] [–o outfile] [–p n] [–r rejectfile] [file]
paste
patch reads a patchfile that contains output from diff describing changes from an
old text file to a new text file. patch then applies those changes to another text file.
Typically, you use patch if you are keeping parallel versions of a file. When you
make a set of changes to one file, you can use patch to incorporate those same
changes in other versions of the file.
–B prefix
Saves a copy of the original file in a backup file. The backup filename is the
name of the original file preceded by the string prefix. If there is already a
file with this name, patch overwrites it. When applying more than one patch
to the same file, patch copies only the original for the first patch. When you
also specify –o outfile, patch does not create prefixfile, but if outfile already
exists, it creates prefixoutfile.
–b Saves a copy of the original file in a backup file. The backup filename is the
name of the original file plus the suffix orig. If there is already a file with
that name, patch overwrites it. When applying more than one patch to the
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