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chomp

usage: chomp [-h] [FLAGS]

Receives input from STDIN
Removes extra whitespace characters from the beginning/end of lines
Removes lines which have just whitespace (no content)

Flags:
  -max-capacity int
    	Maximum capacity for each line in kilobytes. Can also set through CHOMP_MAX_CAPACITY environment variable. (default 64)

This is essentially a portable (and 3x faster):

sed -E -e 's/^\s*//; s/\s*$//; /^\s*$/d'

I use this in scripts when trying to remove spaces from user input/command output. Its also often helpful when data wrangling, to be able to quickly ignore lines/spaces I'm not interested in.

Install

Using go install to put it on your $GOBIN:

go install github.com/purarue/chomp@latest

Manually:

git clone https://github.com/purarue/chomp
cd ./chomp
go build .
# copy binary somewhere on your $PATH
sudo cp ./chomp /usr/local/bin

Example

Typically this would be used by piping some command into it:

$ man -P cat rm | head
RM(1)               User Commands              RM(1)

NAME
       rm - remove files or directories

SYNOPSIS
       rm [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents the GNU version of

$ man -P cat rm | head | chomp
RM(1)               User Commands              RM(1)
NAME
rm - remove files or directories
SYNOPSIS
rm [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of