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How to remove trailing whitespace of all files recursively?

(export LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C
find . -type d \( -name .svn -o -name .git \) -prune -o -type f -print0 | perl -0ne 'print if -T' | xargs -0 sed -Ei 's/[[:blank:]]+$//' )

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Remove trailing whitespace recursively
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/149057/how-to-remove-trailing-whitespace-of-all-files-recursively
(export LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C
find . -type d \( -name .svn -o -name .git \) -prune -o -type f -print0 | perl -0ne 'print if -T' | xargs -0 sed -Ei 's/[[:blank:]]+$//'
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