Using diff

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Trying to use diff program to create a patch.
> Output gos to console and does not create the patch file.
>
> If it do   diff original updated > patch.file
>
> The patch.file does not look like a normal patch file.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?

Try ``diff -u original updates > patch.file''.

Bill
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