Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace

On Saturday May 27, sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de wrote:

Hello,

quoted

#!/usr/bin/perl -i -p
s/[ \t\r\n]+$//

perl -p -i -e 's/\s+$//' file1 file2 file3 ...

Uhm... have either of you actually tried those?  When I tried, I lose
all the '\n' characters :-(

  perl -pi -e 's/[ \t\r]+$//'  *.[ch]

seems to actually work.

NeilBrown