Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com> wrote: >>> Also needed might be a quick script to remove trailing whitespace from >>> a file? >> >> perl -pi -e 's/\s+$//' file1 file2 ... > > Oopps! That ate all linefeeds, use this one instead: > > perl -pi.bak -e 's/[ \t]+$//' file1 file2 ... <blush> Oops indeed! Thanks for the correction, Alan!