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How to prevent patch from creating backup files?

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Mar 15, 20264990 views
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I'm writing some code that will apply the patch(1) program, and I want to completely prevent it from creating backup files. That is, I don't want it to create files when it either fails to update a particular file (in which case it creates a file), or when it successfully updates a file but there'sā€¦

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foo.orig

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