trailing whitespace killing (Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin: blackfin i2c driver)

[Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>]

> From: Andrew Morton
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
> Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin: blackfin i2c driver
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 23:45:29 -0800
[]
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:39:27 +0800 "Wu, Bryan" <bryan.wu@analog.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks a lot, could you please give me a script just to kill this
>> whitespace? So I can do it before sending you patches.
>
>
> Is pretty simple:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Strip any trailing whitespace which a unified diff adds.
> #
>
> strip1()
> {
> 	TMP=$(mktemp /tmp/XXXXXX)
> 	cp $1 $TMP
> 	sed -e '/^+/s/[ 	]*$//' < $TMP > $1
> 	rm $TMP
> }
>
> for i in $*
> do
> 	strip1 $i
> done
>
>
> that'll be in
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/patch-scripts-0.20/patch-scripts-0.20.tar.gz
> too

It doesn't work for me. Maybe i can't understand what you are trying to
do, anyway.

General suggestion is can be:

   sed -e 's_[ \t]*$__'

(i.e any line on stdin with space/tab mixed tails is stripped on stdout)

You can use it as wrapper for diff, sending patch bombs, etc.
(very nice with pipes):

shell$ diff -Npu2 old new | sed -e 's_[ \t]*$__' > patch.diff
shell$ < patch-set.mbox sed -e 's_[ \t]*$__' | formail -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -bm -t 

similar in scripts; quilt (patch sets manager) notices about them.
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