Question

I’m looking for a sed command that, with find, I can take a directory tree of JSP files and write the name of the file in an HTML comment to the top of the file.

This will allow me to review a legacy application JSP call tree of in the HTML source.

I’m thinking it will be a one liner for a talented sed guru…

something like:

find . -name '.jsp' -exec sed ? ? ? {} \;

Maybe something using xargs is more appropriate, but I think sed is the tool that will do the work.

Answer 1

If you want to use sed, you can try

find -name "*.jsp" -exec sed -i '1i <!-- {} -->' {} \;

Works fine for me in the presence of /.