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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need help to escape special characters in Korn shell script Post 302154329 by Cameron on Saturday 29th of December 2007 06:48:45 AM
Old 12-29-2007
You could have also gone with ...
Code:
[mddev:/home/cameron]
$ print 'Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt"'
Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt"

 

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XDIFF_FILE_MERGE3(3)							 1						      XDIFF_FILE_MERGE3(3)

xdiff_file_merge3 - Merge 3 files into one

SYNOPSIS
mixed xdiff_file_merge3 (string $old_file, string $new_file1, string $new_file2, string $dest) DESCRIPTION
Merges three files into one and stores the result in a file $dest. The $old_file is an original version while $new_file1 and $new_file2 are modified versions of an original. PARAMETERS
o $old_file - Path to the first file. It acts as "old" file. o $new_file1 - Path to the second file. It acts as modified version of $old_file. o $new_file2 - Path to the third file. It acts as modified version of $old_file. o $dest - Path of the resulting file, containing merged changed from both $new_file1 and $new_file2. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if merge was successful, string with rejected chunks if it was not or FALSE if an internal error happened. EXAMPLES
Example #1 xdiff_file_merge3(3) example The following code merges three files into one. <?php $old_version = 'original_script.php'; $fix1 = 'script_with_fix1.php'; $fix2 = 'script_with_fix2.php'; $errors = xdiff_file_merge3($old_version, $fix1, $fix2, 'fixed_script.php'); if (is_string($errors)) { echo "Rejects: "; echo $errors; } ?> SEE ALSO
xdiff_string_merge3(3). PHP Documentation Group XDIFF_FILE_MERGE3(3)
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