From: Jan Engelhardt Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 10:15:59 GMT Subject: Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4477B905.9090806@garzik.org> > 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]+$// Jan Engelhardt --