Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace
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>> 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