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SubjectRe: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace
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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