On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:33:02PM -0600, Jared Burns wrote: > Oof. > > Ok, maybe I should give my *real* case. I have some directories with a bunch > of Java files that contain this comment: > /** > * @version 1.0 > * @author > */ > > I want to remove this comment from all of the files. Thoughts? > [untested] perl -pi.bak -e 'BEGIN{undef$/}s[/**\s+*\s+\@version\s+1.0\s+*\s+\@author\s+*/][]g' combine it with find and xargs, and yer golden. I think.