do_remove_trailing_whitespace.sh

#!/bin/bash
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set -e

##
# Remove trailing whitespace.
# The .gitattributes is used as a filter to identify files to check. Patterns
# with this "# check trailing whitespace" on the line before are checked
# (lines in .gitattributes starting with '#' are ignored).
##
awk '/# remove trailing whitespace/{do getline; while ($0 ~ /^#/); print $1}' .gitattributes |
    while read i ; do
        echo "Removing trailing whitespace on $i files"
        git ls-files -z -- "$i" ":!./plugins/org.eclipse.embedcdt.core/src/org/eclipse/embedcdt/core/liqp" ":!./plugins/org.eclipse.embedcdt.core/src/org/eclipse/embedcdt/core/zafarkhaja/semver" | xargs --null --no-run-if-empty sed -i 's/[ \t]*$//'
    done