Bash – Apply multiple .patch files

bashdiff()patch-managementxargs

I have a directory with .patch files, generated using diff.

I would like to apply all those patches using patch -p1 to another directory.

But patch takes only one file, unless I cat.

What would the command be to apply multiple files using xargs or a similar tool.

If cat works, why not use it?

To use find and xargs:

find dirname -name namespec -print0 | xargs -0 patch patchargs

Example:

find src/networking -type f -name 'network*.patch' -print0 | xargs -0 patch -p2

There might be a better way, but this might work, albeit not that efficiently:

 rsync -vrn / dest:/ > ~/file_list

Then edit test to remove the stats, then:

while read file; do
    diff $file <(ssh dest "cat $file")
done < ~/edited_file_list

Another Option:
You might also consider mounting the file system with something like sshfs/fuse, and then just using diff.

There's the fdupes. But I usually use a combination of find . -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \; | sort | uniq -d -w 36