Easy contribution, anyone? [was: [PATCH] COPYING update]

[Jerry James]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Patches to update individual files are also welcome from anybody
> (every file with a permissions notice refers users to the FSF to get
> copies of the GPL, just in case).  No need to fix them all, although
> the more the merrier.

It would be a piece of cake to whip up a script to fix them all at once.
It would touch a very large number of files, though.  In fact, I still
have a script I wrote way back in my youth that might do the job with
very little modification.  I wrote this in grad school when I had to do
a search-and-replace job across a large directory tree:

#! /bin/sh
#
# Usage: replace text1 text2
#        Replace all occurrences of 'text1' with 'text2' in every file
#        given on standard input.  For example, to replace all
#        occurrences of 'foo' with 'bar' in files whose names end in
#        .txt, issue the following command:
#
#        find . -name \*.txt | replace foo bar

while read i; do
    sed "s|$1|$2|g" $i > $i.tmp && mv -f $i.tmp $i
done


What do you say?  Should I just change them all and get it over with?
-- 
Jerry James, Assistant Professor        james at xemacs.org
Computer Science Department             http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/
Utah State University