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/usr/bin/quilt

Easily manage large numbers of patches

From quilt 0.69-r4 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-09 by running quilt --help (exit 1). permalink

Usage: quilt [--trace[=verbose]] [--quiltrc=XX] command [-h] ...
       quilt --version
Commands are:
/usr/bin/quilt: line 45: sort: command not found
/usr/bin/quilt: line 47: sed: command not found
/usr/share/quilt/compat/column: line 3: cat: command not found
/usr/share/quilt/compat/column: line 3: cat: command not found

Global options:

--trace
	Runs the command in bash trace mode (-x). For internal debugging.

--quiltrc file
	Use the specified configuration file instead of ~/.quiltrc (or
	/etc/quilt.quiltrc if ~/.quiltrc does not exist).  See the pdf
	documentation for details about its possible contents.  The
	special value "-" causes quilt not to read any configuration
	file.

--version
	Print the version number and exit immediately.
Options (4)
OptionDescriptionSource
--traceRun the command in the shell's trace mode (-x) for debugging of internal operations.help + man
--quiltrc fileUse the specified configuration file instead of ~/.quiltrc (or /etc/quilt.quiltrc if ~/.quiltrc does not exist).help + man
--versionPrint the version number and exit immediately.help + man
-hPrint a usage message (for the given command, if one is specified, otherwise for quilt itself) and exit. (in the manual page but not in --help)man
Exit status (2) from the manual page
0the requested operation completed successfully
2that quilt did not do anything to complete the command

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.