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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 07:32:59 -0400
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Jan Engelhardt 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.
>>
> 
> 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 :)

	Jeff