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Insert line to all files when missing

October 22 2014 : posted under one-liners blogging octopress

In this case to turn on comments in all posts for this blog

All files that don’t have comments at the start of a line get “comments: true” inserted on the 5th line

for f in * ; do grep -q "^comments" $f || sed -i '5 i\
comments: true' $f ; done

Maybe Octopress has a way to globally enable comments - but I didn’t find it and this was quick