Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sat May 27 2006 - 08:41:50 EST


>> Pretty long script. How about this two-liner? It does not show 'bytes
>> chomped' but it also trims trailing whitespace.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl -i -p
>> s/[ \t\r\n]+$//
>
> Yes, it does, but a bit too aggressive for what we need :)
>
Whoops, should have been s/[ \t\r]+$//
And the CL form is
perl -i -pe '...'

Somehow, you can't group it to -ipe, but who cares.


Jan Engelhardt
--
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/