Rails - Feb 2006 - [OT] How to prepend copyright notices to each source file

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 Jones...........

and for the .rhtml files it will look like:

<!-- Copyright 2006 Robert Jones.........

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 Jones

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 Johnston

On 11-Feb-06, at 4:19 PM, Robert Jones wrote:
> 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 Jones...........
>
> and for the .rhtml files it will look like:
>
> <!-- Copyright 2006 Robert Jones.........
>
> 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 Jones
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

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.

On 12/02/06, Robert Jones <jonesieboy@btinternet.com>
wrote:
> 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 Jones...........
>
> and for the .rhtml files it will look like:
>
> <!-- Copyright 2006 Robert Jones.........
>
> 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 Jones
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>

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

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

On 12/02/06, Charles M. Gerungan <charles@nednieuws.com>
wrote:
> On 12-feb-2006, at 0:13, David Mitchell 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.
>
>
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Thanks Michael - works like a charm.  So simple too.  

Robert


Michael Johnston wrote:
> 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 Johnston
> 
> On 11-Feb-06, at 4:19 PM, Robert Jones wrote:
> 
>> 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 Jones...........
>>
>> and for the .rhtml files it will look like:
>>
>> <!-- Copyright 2006 Robert Jones.........
>>
>> 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 Jones
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails