From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 10:36:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <17528.11171.347324.526827@cse.unsw.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20060527102439.GB26430@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

On Saturday May 27, sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -i -p
> > s/[ \t\r\n]+$//
> 
> perl -p -i -e 's/\s+$//' file1 file2 file3 ...
> 

Uhm... have either of you actually tried those?  When I tried, I lose
all the '\n' characters :-(

  perl -pi -e 's/[ \t\r]+$//'  *.[ch]

seems to actually work.

NeilBrown