Means of trimming files

[Bill Moran]

Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions at trini0.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:21 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> > So Ill start using truncate() for now, and start investigating perl.
> > Thanks....
> > 
> 
> As I was writing the previous email, I thought about combining find with php's 
> cli interface and came up with this "dirty" command (all in one line) ->
> 
> find ./ -name '*.php' -exec php -r '$f = file_get_contents("{}"); $h = 
> fopen("{}", "wb"); fwrite($h, trim($f)); fclose($h);' \;
> 
> It did the job perfectly.

Now _that's_ using the tools ... and the tools you know to boot!

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