The text used here was taken from: http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/midsummer/full.html $ mkdir patches $ cat > Oberon.txt < Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: < It fell upon a little western flower, < Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, < And girls call it love-in-idleness. $ quilt new flower.diff > Patch %{P}flower.diff is now on top $ quilt files $ quilt add Oberon.txt > File Oberon.txt added to patch %{P}flower.diff $ cat >> Oberon.txt < The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid < Will make a man or woman madly dote < Upon the next live creature that it sees. Or ``quilt edit Oberon.txt'' $ quilt refresh -p ab > Refreshed patch %{P}flower.diff $ cat patches/flower.diff > Index: b/Oberon.txt > =================================================================== > --- a/Oberon.txt > +++ b/Oberon.txt > @@ -2,3 +2,6 @@ > It fell upon a little western flower, > Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, > And girls call it love-in-idleness. > +The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid > +Will make a man or woman madly dote > +Upon the next live creature that it sees. $ sed -ne '1,4p' Oberon.txt > Oberon.new $ echo "Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:" >> Oberon.new $ sed -e '1,4d' Oberon.txt >> Oberon.new $ mv Oberon.new Oberon.txt $ quilt diff -z -p ab > Index: b/Oberon.txt > =================================================================== > --- a/Oberon.txt > +++ b/Oberon.txt > @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ > It fell upon a little western flower, > Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, > And girls call it love-in-idleness. > +Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once: > The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid > Will make a man or woman madly dote > Upon the next live creature that it sees. $ quilt diff -p ab > Index: b/Oberon.txt > =================================================================== > --- a/Oberon.txt > +++ b/Oberon.txt > @@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ > It fell upon a little western flower, > Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, > And girls call it love-in-idleness. > +Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once: > +The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid > +Will make a man or woman madly dote > +Upon the next live creature that it sees. $ quilt refresh > Refreshed patch %{P}flower.diff $ quilt top > %{P}flower.diff $ quilt files > Oberon.txt $ quilt patches Oberon.txt > patches/flower.diff $ quilt pop -f > Removing patch %{P}flower.diff > Restoring Oberon.txt > > No patches applied $ quilt files %{P}flower.diff > Oberon.txt $ sed -e "s/girls/maidens/" Oberon.txt > Oberon.new $ mv Oberon.new Oberon.txt $ quilt push > Applying patch %{P}flower.diff >~ patching file `?Oberon.txt'? > Hunk #1 FAILED at 2. >~ 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file `?Oberon.txt'? > Patch %{P}flower.diff does not apply (enforce with -f) $ quilt push -f > Applying patch %{P}flower.diff >~ patching file `?Oberon.txt'? > Hunk #1 FAILED at 2. >~ 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to (file )?`?Oberon.txt.rej'? > Applied patch %{P}flower.diff (forced; needs refresh) $ cat >> Oberon.txt < Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once: < The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid < Will make a man or woman madly dote < Upon the next live creature that it sees. $ quilt refresh -p ab > Refreshed patch %{P}flower.diff $ rm -f Oberon.txt.rej $ cat Oberon.txt > Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: > It fell upon a little western flower, > Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, > And maidens call it love-in-idleness. > Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once: > The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid > Will make a man or woman madly dote > Upon the next live creature that it sees. $ cat patches/flower.diff > Index: b/Oberon.txt > =================================================================== > --- a/Oberon.txt > +++ b/Oberon.txt > @@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ > It fell upon a little western flower, > Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, > And maidens call it love-in-idleness. > +Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once: > +The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid > +Will make a man or woman madly dote > +Upon the next live creature that it sees. $ quilt grep love > Oberon.txt:Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, > Oberon.txt:And maidens call it love-in-idleness.