If you need to generate a patch file for a set of file(s) residing in a directory structure or just for one file, then you can use "diff" command. You can find a very nice article in Linux Magazine named "
What's the diff?". Basically, this command finds out the difference between two files.
If you want to generate a patch for a directory structure:
diff -rau "old_dir" "modified_dir" > "patch_file"
r: recursive
a: treat all files as text.
u: Output NUM (default 3) lines of unified context.
In case of two file, ignoring -r would be enough.
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