Re: licenses of tests

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 12/30/2009 1:44 AM:
>>>   find modules -name '*-tests' | xargs grep -l License \
>>>     | xargs sed -i '/^$/N; /License:/,$ d'
>>
>> Those changes look fine.  Thanks.
>>
>> In case there's a next time, you'd want to add a "^"
>> before the "License:" in that sed command:
>
> That wouldn't have worked.  The previous N command, to also delete the
> blank line prior to the License line, means that License is no longer at
> the beginning of the pattern stream.  But this would do it:
>
> sed -i '/^$/N; /\n*License:$/,$ d'

Indeed.  I should have tried it.  I don't use sed's "N" enough.
Since these are all tiny files, I'd say just use Perl:

    perl -0777 -pi -e 's/\n\n+License:\n.*\n/\n/'