#!/bin/sh set -e curr_ver=$(ls g10-*.tar.gz | sort -r -t '.' -n +0.4 -1 +1 -2 +2 \ | head -1 | sed -e 's/g10-\(.*\).tar.gz/\1/' ) prev_ver=$(ls g10-*.tar.gz | sort -r -t '.' -n +0.4 -1 +1 -2 +2 \ | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/g10-\(.*\).tar.gz/\1/' ) echo "Current is: $curr_ver" echo "Previous is: $prev_ver" echo "Removing old directories" [ -d "g10-$curr_ver" ] && rm -rf "g10-$curr_ver" [ -d "g10-$prev_ver" ] && rm -rf "g10-$prev_ver" echo "Unpacking previous and current tar" tar xzf "g10-$curr_ver.tar.gz" tar xzf "g10-$prev_ver.tar.gz" echo "Diffing" tmp_name="g10-$curr_ver.diff.tmp" diff_name="g10-$curr_ver.diff" diff -urN "g10-$prev_ver/" "g10-$curr_ver/" > $tmp_name || true echo "Making patch file" cat < $diff_name This is a patch file against $prev_ver. Change to directory g10-$prev_ver (or however you renamed it) and give this command: zcat somepath/g10-$curr_ver.diff.gz | patch -p1 It is a good idea to rename your current directory to g10-$curr_ver now. Prereq: $prev_ver EOF sed -ne '/^diff.*VERSION/,/^+[0-9][0-9]*/ p' $tmp_name >> $diff_name sed -e '/^diff.*VERSION/,/^+[0-9][0-9]*/ d' $tmp_name >> $diff_name rm $tmp_name echo "Compressing patch file" gzip -9 $diff_name echo "Checking patch file" cd g10-$prev_ver zcat ../$diff_name.gz | patch -s -p1 rm $(find . -name "*.orig") cd .. if ! diff -urN "g10-$prev_ver/" "g10-$curr_ver/" >/dev/null ; then echo "compare failed" exit 1 fi echo "cleaning up" rm -rf "g10-$curr_ver" rm -rf "g10-$prev_ver" echo "Patch file $diff_name.gz is good."