On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:33:02PM -0600, Jared Burns wrote:
> Oof. 
> 
> Ok, maybe I should give my *real* case. I have some directories with a bunch 
> of Java files that contain this comment:
> /**
>  * @version 	1.0
>  * @author
>  */
> 
> I want to remove this comment from all of the files. Thoughts?
> 

[untested]

 perl -pi.bak -e 'BEGIN{undef$/}s[/**\s+*\s+\@version\s+1.0\s+*\s+\@author\s+*/][]g'

combine it with find and xargs, and yer golden.  I think.