dump trailing whitespace across a project
After adding Cane to an old crufty project, I found (among other issues) hundreds of reports of 'Line contains trailing whitespace'. After a quick perl onliner, those were all gone.
find . -name '*.rb' -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/[^\S\r\n]+$//'
Written by Mr Rogers
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looks like this could be merged with https://coderwall.com/p/_ppnlg for good time fun
over 1 year ago
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