From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:42:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605271441080.4857@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
In-Reply-To: <447838EB.9060900@garzik.org>

>> 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]+$//
>
> Yes, it does, but a bit too aggressive for what we need :)
>
Whoops, should have been s/[ \t\r]+$//
And the CL form is
  perl -i -pe '...'

Somehow, you can't group it to -ipe, but who cares.


Jan Engelhardt
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