I am using git bash on Windows.

I have a large set (thousands) of c/c++ files with autogenerated headers that I want to replace. My plan is first to strip the headers then apply new ones.

These headers follow the pattern:

/************************************************************************************ ///_|
File: $Id: //perforcedepot/path/filename.ext#1 $

LEGAL NOTICE: COPYRIGHT YYYY by COMPANY NAME, All Rights Reserved 
*************************************************************************************/ //|_/

I experimented a bit and came up with this:

sed '//*********/,// //|_//d' filename.ext

Seems good enough, but I’m wondering if there is a more elegant way to do the match?

Also, I tested it with find as so:

find . -iregex '.*.(h|c|hpp|cpp)$' -exec sed '//*********/,// //|_//d' {} ;

Seems to be picking up the correct files, based on a small test sample.

My plan is now to add “-i” to make sed overwrite the files.

But I feel like I made this harder on myself than it needed to be. So my question is: Did I come by the right approach here? Is there an easier solution?