Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 May 2006 07:42:00 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Jeff Garzik 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. >> > > This is the script I use for the same purpose. It's a bit more > sophisticated, in that it detects and avoids binary files, and doesn't > throw an error if it encounters a directory (which can happen if you > give it a wildcard.)
Chewing the EOF blanks is nice. The only nit I have is that your script rewrites the file even if nothing was changed.
Jeff
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