Headerizer

Headerizer is a utility that (when finished) will recursively sift through sub directories of a specified root inserting a header into files of a specified type. Headerizer was inspired by @BartMassey emacs-copyright and is released under a GPLv3.0 license

Current State

As of now, Hederizer has been realesed only as a commandline utility and can be used as follows:

[-r|--recursive] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] <directory> <header> fileType1 fileType2 ... fileTypeN

  [-r|--recursive]
        tell Headerizer whether or not to recursively search subdirectories for
        matching files

  [-h|--help]
        displays this message

  [-v|--verbose]
        Requests verbose output

  <directory>
        Name of directory or file which is to be Headerized (default: ./)

  <header>
        This is the intended header to be inserted into the specified files
        (default: //  Default Header)

  fileType1 fileType2 ... fileTypeN
        file extensions of files which are to be Headerized (default: txt)

the jar for this project can be found under Downloads

note that there is little to no error handleing/fault tolerance right now so this may blow up in your face, but it hasn't lost a file yet ;)

Currently, Headerizer works by prepending the specified header at the begining of the specified file. if the -r option is invoked and a directory is passed as an argument it will prepend the header to all files of the specified file type found in that directory and all sub directories.

Future Plans

So far no future releases have been formalized, but it is my intention to incorporate the following features into Headerizer as the projects develops

GUI
Insert headers into multiple file types at once
Automatic comment prefixing based on file type
Automatic name, date, and copyright entry
Support for multiple projects across a disjoint directory structure

any other ideas? you are welcome pass them along or implement them as you see fit.