Reason (was: Re: dropcopyright script)

[Mordechai Ovits]

In newer file managers, the icon of a C file is a tiny image of the first
few lines of text.  If all files startt with a copyright, it's not much
good.  So running this on a local, personal, tree can be a good thing.

Mordy

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:23:57AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> What prompted this? People are going to want copyright notices in a
> prominent place. Namely at the beginning of the code along with whatever
> instructions and cruft.
> 
> Rick Hohensee wrote:
> > 
> > .......................................................................
> > ## drop copyright notices to the bottoms of C files in current dir and
> > #     subs.
> > # /*
> > #  CopYriGHt Guess Who          2001            All reserves righted.
> > # */
> > 
> > grep -ilr "copyright" . > tempdropcopyrights
> > 
> > for f in `cat tempdropcopyrights`
> > do
> > ed $f <<HEREDOC
> > /[Cc][oO][pP][yY][rR][iI]/
> > ?\/\*?
> > .,/\*\//m$
> > wq
> > HEREDOC
> > done
> > ........................................................................
> > 
> 
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