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25.Dd February 6, 2012
26.Dt FIXWHITE 1
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm fixwhite
30.Nd remove unneeded whitespace from text files
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.Nm
33.Sh DESCRIPTION
34The
35.Nm
36utility removes unneeded whitespace from text passed to standard input
37and prints the result to standard output.
38.Pp
39It removes leading and trailing empty lines from the input, as well as
40trailing whitespace characters from ever line of text.
41Multiple successive empty lines are merged together.
42If the whitespace at the beginning of a sentence is exactly a multiple
43of eight spaces, the whitespace is replaced by tabs.
44Also, spaces preceding tabs will be merged into the tab character.
45.Sh AUTHORS
46.An Ed Schouten Aq Mt ed@FreeBSD.org
47