Re: Can the Ant task "patch" be used in Linux for patching files with DOS linefeeds?

Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:07:37 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.jakarta.ant.user
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On 2020-09-02, Harri T. wrote:

> 1. use the Ant task |patch| in Linux for patching files with DOS linefeeds?
> 2. apply the option |--binary| with the Ant task |patch|?

Th patch task doesn't support --binary, yet, but it would be very easy
to add.

Actually <patch> is really a simple wrapper for <exec>, the easiest
approach probably is to use <exec> instead of the task.

Stefan