--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+my $fn = shift @ARGV;
+my $old = `cat $fn`;
+
+my $header = `cat doc/header.txt`;
+
+# strip existing header
+my $new = $old;
+if ($new =~ /^(.*)\* Ceph - scalable distributed file system/s) {
+ my ($a,@b) = split(/\*\/\n/, $new);
+ $new = join("*/\n",@b);
+}
+$new = $header . $new;
+
+if ($new ne $old) {
+ open(O, ">$fn.new");
+ print O $new;
+ close O;
+ system "diff $fn $fn.new";
+ rename "$fn.new", $fn;
+ #unlink "$fn.new";
+
+}
+