Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:45:00 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove trailing whitespace |
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:34:36PM +0000, Padraig Brady wrote: > I used sed, but yes the following does > the same as downloading and applying the patch: > find linux -type f | xargs perl -wi -pe 's/[<space><tab>]+$//' > (obviously replace <space> & <tab> with the appropriate chars). > > Note also that after (bz2) compression the space saving drops > from 224,654 to 139,669 bytes, which is still good. > > Padraig.
Running Lindent on the kerneltree would be far more yielding, as it would, apart from removing extraoneous whitespace, also format all code in a sane manner. However, this is unlikely to ever happen; I seem to recall that Linus has commented on this before.
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