Inserting a license file into thousands of scripts

**gclift** · 12-02-2005

Dear group,

I need to add a license file to thousands of scripts. Can anybody point me in the right direction (PERL,SED,AWK)?

Distro: Cent OS 3

Regards,
g

**lakerdonald** · 12-02-2005

What do you mean exactly by this? Can you clarify what exactly you're trying to do.
Thanks,
Andy

**Stefann** · 12-02-2005

Originally Posted by lakerdonald

What do you mean exactly by this? Can you clarify what exactly you're trying to do.
Thanks,
Andy

I think insert
# Liscence
#blah blah
at the beginning of every script file in a dir or something.

**anomie** · 12-03-2005

OP, you're not going to be able to get much help with a description like that.

You want to "add a license file" to scripts? Explain more and give an example.

**a thing** · 12-03-2005

I think sed or awk is what you need.

**gclift** · 12-05-2005

Sorry about the poor description. What I'm trying to do is add license text to the top of thousands of scripts. The license file is about 25 lines long and contains the comments for PHP. I need to add it to line 2 before any code. Please see below for an example.

EXAMPLE SCRIPT:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

EXAMPLE LICENSE:
/*
* My license
* this is about 25 lines long
* copyright year organization
*/

AFTER MERGE:
<?php

/*
* My license
* this is about 25 lines long
* copyright year organization
*/

phpinfo();
?>

**lakerdonald** · 12-05-2005

Code:

license-text=$&#40;cat license-file&#41;
for file in "$list"
do
sed -i 2i"$license-text" "$file"
done

where license-file is the license file, and $list is a list of files to do this to

**anomie** · 12-05-2005

This thread explains how to use sed to insert into a text file: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/post-322163.html

Sounds like you can just cat the license file and insert it at the appropriate line in your scripts.

edit: Nothing like being slow.

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