merge

merge

The merge command is a Linux command that can be used to merge two or more files. This can be useful for combining changes from different sources, or for creating a single file that contains the changes from multiple files.

Here are some examples of how to use the merge command:

# To merge the files `file1` and `file2` and save the result in a new file called `merged.txt`:
merge file1 file2 > merged.txt

# To merge the files `file1` and `file2` and save the result in the `file1` file:
merge file1 file2 >> file1

# To merge the files `file1` and `file2` and use the `ours` merge strategy:
merge -s ours file1 file2

# To merge the files `file1` and `file2` and only update the changes in the `file1` file:
merge -u file1 file2

# To merge the files `file1` and `file2` and use the `file2` file as the base file:
merge -b file2 file1

help

merge [options] file1 file2

Merge two or more files.

Options:

-s, --strategy=STRATEGY   Select merge strategy.
-u, --update             Only update changes in file1.
-b, --base=FILE          Use FILE as base file.
-h, --help               Show this help message.

For more information, see the merge man page.

breakdown

-s, --strategy=STRATEGY: This option tells merge to use a specific merge strategy. The default merge strategy is ours.
-u, --update: This option tells merge to only update the changes in the file1 file.
-b, --base=FILE: This option tells merge to use the FILE file as the base file.
-h, --help: This option shows this help message.