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From: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
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Subject: Re: Means of trimming files
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On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:21 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> So Ill start using truncate() for now, and start investigating perl.
> Thanks....
> 

As I was writing the previous email, I thought about combining find with php's 
cli interface and came up with this "dirty" command (all in one line) ->

find ./ -name '*.php' -exec php -r '$f = file_get_contents("{}"); $h = 
fopen("{}", "wb"); fwrite($h, trim($f)); fclose($h);' \;

It did the job perfectly.