The canonical location of this project is now gulp-community/gulp-header.
Forked Version using updated dependencies
Original repo at https://github.com/gulp-community/gulp-header
This Version replaces lodash template by a simpler by still effective replacement. All test still pass

gulp-header is a Gulp extension to add a header to file(s) in the pipeline. Gulp is a streaming build system utilizing node.js.
Install
npm install --save-dev gulp-header
Usage
var header = require('gulp-header');
gulp.src('./foo/*.js')
.pipe(header('Hello'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'))
gulp.src('./foo/*.js')
.pipe(header('Hello <%= name %>\n', { name : 'World'} ))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'))
gulp.src('./foo/*.js')
.pipe(header('Hello ${name}\n', { name : 'World'} ))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'))
var pkg = require('./package.json');
var banner = ['/**',
' * <%= pkg.name %> - <%= pkg.description %>',
' * @version v<%= pkg.version %>',
' * @link <%= pkg.homepage %>',
' * @license <%= pkg.license %>',
' */',
''].join('\n');
gulp.src('./foo/*.js')
.pipe(header(banner, { pkg : pkg } ))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'))
var fs = require('fs');
gulp.src('./foo/*.js')
.pipe(header(fs.readFileSync('header.txt', 'utf8'), { pkg : pkg } ))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'))
return gulp.src([
'src/*.coffee',
])
.pipe(header(banner, { pkg : pkg } ))
.pipe(sourcemaps.init())
.pipe(coffee({
bare: true
}))
.pipe(sourcemaps.write('.'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist/js'))
Issues and Alerts
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API
text
Type: String
Default: ''
The template text.
data
Type: Object
Default: {}
The data object used to populate the text.
In addition to the passed in data, file
will be the stream object for the file being templated against and filename
will be the path relative from the stream's basepath.
NOTE: using false
will disable template processing of the header