What does the -p3 option to the patch command do?

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It will strip off path information from each file mentioned in the patch file up to and including the third / character.

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patch continues execution as long as there are three or fewer errors.

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It instructs patch to look up to three lines of context before or after the declared line in the original file for a match.

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patch will keep three previous versions of each file in the output to prevent loss of change history.

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It instructs patch to conform more strictly to the POSIX standard.

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