Add header(copyright) information to existing source files

Question

I want to add our company\'s copyright information to all of our EXISTING source code files.

The project is developed in Eclipse. so, for new files I can m

Answer 1

I think you can use Eclipse replace command using Regular Expression.

Imagine that your copyright is something like:

/* jQuery UI CSS Framework
*  Copyright (c) 2010 AUTHORS.txt (http://jqueryui.com/about)
*  Dual licensed under the MIT (MIT-LICENSE.txt) and GPL (GPL-LICENSE.txt) licenses.
*/

then

1. Go to menu: Search -> File

2. in the Search dialog 
2.1. check the "Regular Expression"
2.2. in the Containing text:
    \A[^(\Q/*\E\s+jQuery.*)]
2.3 click the Replace
    past your copyright

Explanation of regex:

\A - Start of the file

\Q...\E - Here goes the regex keywords ( because / and * are keys in regex )

\s+ - whitespaces

[^(..)] - means except