From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 11:32:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <447838EB.9060900@garzik.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605271212210.6670@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

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