Strip Trailing Whitespace from Git projects
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A common linting error thrown by various linters is for trailing whitespace. I most often use flake8. I generally have pre-commit hooks setup to strip this,...

Date: September 30, 2020

A common linting error thrown by various linters is for trailing whitespace. I
most often use flake8. I generally have
[pre-commit]([https://waylonwalker.com/pre-commit-is-awesome](https://waylonwalker.com/pre-commit-is-awesome/)
hooks setup to strip this,
but sometimes I run into situations where I jump into a project without it, and
my editor lights up with errors. A simple fix is to run this one-liner.

## One-Liner to strip whitespace

_bash_
``` bash
git grep -I --name-only -z -e '' | xargs -0 sed -i -e 's/[ \t]\+\(\r\?\)$/\1/'
```

 [1]

read more about how pre-commit is awesome [2]

References:
[1]: https://waylonwalker.com/pre-commit-is-awesome
[2]: /pre-commit-is-awesome/