---
title: "Strip Trailing Whitespace from Git projects"
description: "A common linting error thrown by various linters is for trailing whitespace. I most often use flake8. I generally have pre-commit hooks setup to strip this,..."
date: 2020-09-30
published: true
tags:
- git
- pre-commit
- python
template: blog-post
---
A common linting error thrown by various linters is for trailing whitespace. I
most often use flake8. I generally have
[pre-commit]([https://waylonwalker.com/pre-commit-is-awesome](https://waylonwalker.com/pre-commit-is-awesome/)
hooks setup to strip this,
but sometimes I run into situations where I jump into a project without it, and
my editor lights up with errors. A simple fix is to run this one-liner.
## One-Liner to strip whitespace
_bash_
``` bash
git grep -I --name-only -z -e '' | xargs -0 sed -i -e 's/[ \t]\+\(\r\?\)$/\1/'
```