[CentOS] patching from different directory

Carlos Santana wrote:
> Thanks Filipe.
>
> I can do it by cd-ing into file-to-be-patched dir. I think the -d
> switch in patch command does similar thing (cd). But then it assumes
> diff file also to be present in that new directory.
>
> I guess the problem is not having full dir path in the diff file
> itself. The diff file mentions only file name. How do I get full path
> in my diff file? Any clues?

Could another option be to pipe the diff into patch via STDIN ?

cat /path/to/filename.diff | patch -p0

or something.

nate