Getting "Comments starting with '#' are deprecated" message via CLI

Question

I have a very limited access to server php configuration files .

when I run some of my cron scripts which involves writing log files , I am getting a warning like this

Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 

I googled a lot to find the reason , I got to know that we need to replace the '#' with ';' in ming.ini file .

I informed this to my server admin to fix this

below is the link where I got this fix

How to fix: PHP Deprecated errors

Later , for some of the scripts issue got fixed but for some of them I started getting same error in different php configuration file

eg .

PHP Deprecated:  Comments starting with ‘#’ are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/imagick.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0  PHP Deprecated:  Comments starting with ‘#’ are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/imap.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 

What actually is the problem , below is my server specification

OS : ubuntu 12 php : 5.4

Is this a usual behaviour do I need to change these comments from '#' to ';' in every file .

OR is this an issue with PHP 5.4 .

Please provide any information if you have or an easy way to avoid this error in application level ( code )

Thanks in advance for reading this post

Answer 1

You can patch the comments with this shell command:

find /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ -name "*.ini" -exec sed -i -re 's/^(\s*)#(.*)/\1;\2/g' {} \; 

It basically finds all .ini files below /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ and executes sed on it, which replaces any # comment line literal by ;.