UNIX/Linux trick with sed: To strip blank lines off the end of all PHP files, recursively, starting in the current directory, use this script:
find . -name '*.php' -exec sed -i -e :a -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;ba' -e '}' '{}' \;
This edits files in place. It changes files. Caveat.
Credit to @Ace_NoOne at jimbojw, who in turn credits unnamed users at freenode.
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Whew!
I’ve been wondering how to strip the blank lines off my PHP files. Recursively, of course! What a great sed trick.
Thanks! :>)
Hey, I did my job. To wipe the blank look off your face, you’re gonna need something like this
:
I think I’m going to need more than a line of code to understand this post of yours. I’m not even sure the code will run in this old “386″ brain I have.
If you’re on your phone you probably didn’t see what followed the colon in my last comment, which is a link to an Amazon page where you can buy a 432-page book teaching you how to understand this post. As of this writing, there’s a used one for $2.99.
The original link was a fancy iframe that your phone’s browser can’t see; to get that to work I had to do some wizardly programming. So, beware: another post on how to do that cometh! Some time.
I await with bated breath.
Here’s a text link. You could buy it right now!
Oh, and this code could work on a 386. Theoretically. If you could scrounge an old (really old) build of, say, Slackware. I used one in (gulp) 1995. Could never get it to do much useful. But I didn’t know sed then.