Re: OpenBSD's patch

I'd try searching for the string "--dry-run" in the output of "patch --help".

Both "--help" and "--dry-run" are probably GNU specific (GNU uses double dashes). On other systems, "patch --help" will give you error messages, but will never print "--dry-run".

By the way, according to the man page, OpenBSD's patch program is derived from the one authored by Larry Wall.

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Re^2: OpenBSD's patch by sedusedan (Monk) on May 28, 2014 at 05:46 UTC
Good idea. I think I'll try this instead of coriac's suggestion of using `man patch` (I'm thinking Windows where there is no 'man' by default). I hope all patch support --help :-)	[reply]
Re^3: OpenBSD's patch by betterworld (Curate) on Jun 04, 2014 at 14:00 UTC
I hope all patch support --help There are patch programs that don't support help. Again, I am very confident that if it supports "--dry-run", then it will also support "--help".	[reply]

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