patch: Apply a diff file to an original1

patch takes a patch file patchfile containing a difference listing produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch

Author: Larry Wall, Paul Eggert, Wayne Davison and David MacKenzie
Maintainer: Rene Rebe <rene [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 2.7.6

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).
Remark: Dietlibc compatible.

Download: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/patch/ patch-2.7.6.tar.xz

T2 source: patch.cache
T2 source: patch.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 12% (relative to binutils)2

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.22 MB, 7 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree attr bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep gzip linux-header make sed tar xz

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

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2) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).