1.\" Copyright (c) 2012 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 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