On ecj and @Override annotations for interface methods

[C. K. Jester-Young]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:05:32PM +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> find -name '*.java' -exec sed -i 's#@Override##g' '{}' ';'

All occurrences of (problematic) @Override I've seen so far come on
its own line. This would reduce the risk of stripping @Override out of
string literals and other funny places:

find . -name '*.java' -exec perl -pi -e 's/^\s*\@Override\s*$//' {} +

Or, for people who don't like Perl:

find . -name '*.java' -exec sed -i \
    's/^[[:space:]]*@Override[[:space:]]*$//' {} +

Or for non-character-class-supporting seds (assuming that \t does
expand to a tab; otherwise use an actual tab instead):

find . -name '*.java' -exec sed -i 's/^[ \t]*@Override[ \t]*$//' {} +

This does, yes, assume -exec ... + works for find (and not all versions
of find support it); but it's specified by the Single Unix Specification
and has been supported in GNU find since findutils-4.2.12 (according to
ChangeLog---January 2005), and makes things a lot faster.

Wow, that's a one-liner turned into a 20-odd liner message. :-P

Cheers,
	---Chris K.