ID

e6f4c99

date

2026-05-27 06:54:27+00:00

author

Alex Chan <alex@alexwlchan.net>

parent

cd13b60

message

text: add a script to trim whitespace

changed files

2 files, 30 additions, 1 deletion

• text/README.md
• text/trim

Changed files

text/README.md (6469) → text/README.md (6766)

diff --git a/text/README.md b/text/README.md
index 4c653cd..c8fc07e 100644
--- a/text/README.md
+++ b/text/README.md
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ scripts = [
         "description": "prints a tally of lines in the given text.",
     },
     {
+        "usage": "trim < [PATH]",
+        "description": "prints text with whitespace stripped",
+    },
+    {
         "usage": "vs [PATH]",
         "description": "open a path in Visual Studio Code",
     },
@@ -218,6 +222,15 @@ cog_helpers.create_description_table(folder_name=folder_name, scripts=scripts)
   </dd>
 
   <dt>
+    <a href="https://github.com/alexwlchan/scripts/blob/main/text/trim">
+      <code>trim < [PATH]</code>
+    </a>
+  </dt>
+  <dd>
+    prints text with whitespace stripped
+  </dd>
+
+  <dt>
     <a href="https://github.com/alexwlchan/scripts/blob/main/text/vs">
       <code>vs [PATH]</code>
     </a>
@@ -226,4 +239,4 @@ cog_helpers.create_description_table(folder_name=folder_name, scripts=scripts)
     open a path in Visual Studio Code
   </dd>
 </dl>
-<!-- [[[end]]] (sum: YMjzg7VZH5) -->
\ No newline at end of file
+<!-- [[[end]]] (sum: vgRPKLXa0Q) -->
\ No newline at end of file

text/trim (0) → text/trim (252)

diff --git a/text/trim b/text/trim
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6a887e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/text/trim
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Trim removes leading/trailing whitespace from a string passed on stdin.
+
+Usage:
+
+    $ echo "  hello world " | trim
+    hello world
+
+"""
+
+import sys
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.stdout.write(sys.stdin.read().strip())