On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 05:01:21AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1 ../patches/*.patch That's not how you do it. patch(1) can only accept one patch at a time, and it expects to see it on standard input. for p in ../patches/*.patch; do patch -p1 < "$p"; done