[ILUG] Recursively Remove Comments

[Conor Mac Aoidh]

Just noticed this morning an error with the command:

*find . -type f -name "*.php" | while read file; do sed -i -e '/*/d' $file;
done*

sed expects anything after the -i to be the extention given to all the
backup files it makes. So basically for every file that was fixed, the
original file was stored in a backup also. For example index.php would be
stored in index.php-e

With a bit of research I figured out that OS X, which I am using, doesn't
interpret the sed command the same way Linux does, and expects sed -i
commands differently, like this:

*find . -type f -name "*.php" | while read file; do sed -i "" '/*/d' $file;
done*

--
Conor

http://blog.macaoidh.name


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Conor Mac Aoidh
<conormacaoidh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks that did the job, just had to remove the ^ from the sed command and
> it worked perfectly.
>
> Cheers
> ---
> Conor
>
> http://conormacaoidh.com
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:52 PM, imduffy <imduffy15 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  I think this should do what you want... any line starting with * will be
>> removed.
>>
>> find . -type f -name "*.php" | while read file; do sed -i -e '/^*/d'
>> $file; done
>>
>
>