[OT] How to prepend copyright notices to each source file

Rails
1

Sorry for the off-topic post, but I guess someone else may hit the same
issue…

Having developed a rails application, I now need to put GPL text and a
copyright notice at the start of each source file. For the .rb files,
this
will look like:

Copyright 2006 Robert J…

and for the .rhtml files it will look like:

<!-- Copyright 2006 Robert J.......... Can anyone think of a neat way to do this prepending programatically on Linux, rather than by hand? I'm sure I can be done with awk, sed, grep etc. Thanks in advance, -- Robert J.
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make a script addhead in root directory:

#!/bin/sh
cat $2 $1 > $1.tmp
mv $1.tmp $1

then execute
find . -name “*.rb” -exec ./addhead {} header.txt ;

Michael J.

3

If you’re using a layout file, put it in there.

If you’re resorting to sed/awk/etc. for stuff like this, personally
I’d think that your design needs to be looked at and possibly
refactored.

Layouts are incredibly handy…

Regards

Dave M.

4

On 12-feb-2006, at 0:13, David M. wrote:

Having developed a rails application, I now need to put GPL text
and a
copyright notice at the start of each source file.

If you’re using a layout file, put it in there.

If you’re resorting to sed/awk/etc. for stuff like this, personally
I’d think that your design needs to be looked at and possibly
refactored.

Refactored? He wanted the notice “at the start of each source file.”

–
Regards, Charles.

5

Thanks Michael - works like a charm. So simple too.

Robert

6

Ah, my mistake - I read it as though he wanted to have a copyright
notice on each (published) page.