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HEADACHE(1) | [FIXME: manual] | HEADACHE(1) |
NAME¶
headache - A program to manage the license of your source file.
SYNOPSIS¶
headache [-h file] [-c file] [-r] [-help | --help] file...
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the headache command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
It is a common usage to put at the beginning of source code files a short header giving, for instance, some copyright information. headache is a simple and lightweight tool for managing easily these headers. Among its functionalities, one may mention:
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS¶
file
-h file
-c file
-help, --help
USAGE¶
Let us illustrate the use of this tool with a small example. Assume you have a small project mixing C and Caml code consisting in three files 'foo.c', 'bar.ml' and 'bar.mli'', and you want to equip them with some header. First of all, write a header file, i.e. a plain text file including the information headers must mention. An example of such a file is given in figure 1. In the following, we assume this file is named 'myheader' and is in the same directory as source files.
Then, in order to generate headers, just run the command : headache -h myheader foo.c bar.ml bar.mli
Each file is equipped with an header including the text given in the header file 'myheader', surrounded by some extra characters depending on its format making it a comment (e.g. '(*' and '*)' in '.ml' files). If you update the header file 'myheader', you simply need to re-run the above command to update headers in source code files.
Similarly, running : headache -r foo.c bar.ml bar.mli removes any existing in files 'foo.c', 'bar.ml' and 'bar.mli'. Files which do not have a header are kept unchanged.
CONFIGURATION FILE¶
File types and format of header may be specified by a configuration file. By default, the default builtin configuration file given in figure 2 is used. You can also use your own configuration file thanks to the -c option : headache -c myconfig -h myheader foo.c bar.ml bar.mli
In order to write your own configuration, you can follow the example given in figure 2. A configuration file consists in a list of entries separated by the character '|'. Each of them is made of two parts separated by an '->'.
The first one is a regular expression. (Regular expression are enclosed within double quotes and have the same syntax as in Gnu Emacs.) headache determines file types according to file basenames; thus, each file is dealt with using the first line its name matches.
The second one describes the format of headers for files of this type. It consists of the name of a model (e.g. 'frame'), possibly followed by a list of arguments. Arguments are named: 'open:"(*"' means that the value of the argument 'open' is '(*'. headache currently supports three models and a special keyword:
frame
lines
no
skip
SEE ALSO¶
/usr/share/doc/headache/manual.html
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; considering as source code all the file that enable the production of this manpage.
AUTHOR¶
Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Sylvain Le Gall
February 15, 2004 | [FIXME: source] |