On 10/11/2019 8:39 PM, David Wall wrote: > I regularly 'build' GnuCOBOL compiler from source code - however it is > supplied in 'tar' format. > I use 'tar' to unpack it and then I need to make changes to certain > files all the time. > > I installed msys-patch and checked thru the documentation - but it > processes a 'diff' file and > that confused me no end. Maybe I'll have to investigate how to produce a > 'diff' file. > > What I'd like to do is tell a patch program to: > > 1. Find this file 2. Find this text in the file 3. Replace found > text with new text. > > It would be easier to do within Mingw - rather than exit and make the > patches manually > then continue with the build. Is there any reason you want to use mingw for this? This sounds like a job for sed + a makefile to me.
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