Unexpected results in attempting a patch

[David Jensen]

Tom,

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Tom Bullock <tbullock at nd.edu> wrote:
>
SNIP
> Question 2:
>
> I ran "svn diff" in a terminal and the result showed what I was expecting.
>  I then wanted to capture the output into a file to attach to a bugzilla bug
> report.  I used this command:
> "svn diff | patch1" thinking I was going to pipe the output into the file
> called patch1.  Instead I got this response:
>
> No command 'patch1' found, did you mean Command 'patch' from package 'patch'
> (main)
>
> obviously, I am misleading ubuntu 10.4 and don't know how to pipe output
> into a new file. What should I be doing?
>
> TIA
>
> Tom
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You don't pipe (|) to an output file, you redirect (>).  Pipes
'connect' the output of one program to the input of another, so you
were trying to run the output from svn diff into a program patch1.
You want > instead of | ("svn diff > patch1") to that you redirect the
output to a file and not a program.

Regards,
David