Recently I tried to replace one line with multiple lines of text using Netbeans. As much as Netbeans IDE is growing on me (having recently switched from Eclipse), I couldn’t accomplish this multi-file, multi-line replace with it (yes I know about Edit > Replace in Projects… that didn’t work). I turned to bash for a solution …
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This was just too painful not to blog about. I hope this saves someone else some pain of reading sed documentation to put together a pattern to match C style header comments.

In my case I’m putting together a build script, part of it is to minify Javascript before deployment.
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