Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sat May 27 2006 - 07:41:19 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:

Attached to this email is chomp.pl, a Perl script which removes trailing whitespace from several files. I've had this for years, as trailing whitespace is one of my pet peeves.

Now that git-applymbox complains loudly whenever a patch adds trailing whitespace, I figured this script may be useful to others.


This is the script I use for the same purpose. It's a bit more sophisticated, in that it detects and avoids binary files, and doesn't throw an error if it encounters a directory (which can happen if you give it a wildcard.)

Chewing the EOF blanks is nice. The only nit I have is that your script rewrites the file even if nothing was changed.

Jeff



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