Re: [Jython-dev] copyright characters in source files

[Bill K. <bi...@ct...>]

From: "Ben Burton" <be...@ac...>
> 
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> So basically what I'm going to ask is for all the copyright characters to be 
> replaced with (c). :)  I realise this is an onerous task (although one that 
> only took me a few minutes with a for loop in bash and a lot of repetitive 
> keystrokes in vi).

Hi, I'm still a Python newbie (so don't know of an optimal Python
solution for this yet) but Perl is phenomenal for this sorta thing:

find somedir -type f -name "*.java" | perl -i -npe 's/\123/(c)/g'

where \123 could be the octal representation of the highbit char
to be replaced with (c).

(Note: under Windows the -i would have to be changed to something
like -i.bak because win perl can't edit files in-place.)

Hope this helps,

Bill