Process diff output to make new file 1

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I know that when the -e option is used, diff produces output that ed can process. But what program can use diff's output, when the -e option isn't used, to create the new file from the old one?

 

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[futurelet]

In my ignorance, I wrote a program in Awk to create the new file from the diffs.