On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 14:02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On 6 Feb 2003, Steven Cole wrote:
> >
> > In this case the issue is not a broken mailer, but rather the improper
> > use of a good one. Mark is using Evolution and so am I. It appears
> > that he did a cut and paste from an xterm (or something similar) which
> > converted the tabs to spaces.
>
> Ahh, yes. That would also do it.
>
> [ I'm also happy to hear that Evolution does it right these days, I have
> this memory of it pruning whitespace at ends of lines by default like
> some broken versions of pine also did. But maybe it was some other
> graphical mail client. ]
>
> Anyway, applied.
>
> Linus
BTW, to save bandwidth and whitespace mishaps we could send patches as
scripts, just like Al Viro did once-upon-a-time.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102669188302509&w=2
So, since this uses ex instead of vi ;), here is something to fix
the spelling of definite and separate throughout the tree.
Applied to plain 2.5.59, diffstat reports this for the 871-line diff:
63 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
Steven
#!/bin/sh
find . -name "*" | xargs grep -l definat | awk '{print "ex - ",$1," -c \"%s/definat/definit/g|x\""}' | sh
find . -name "*" | xargs grep -l seperat | awk '{print "ex - ",$1," -c \"%s/seperat/separat/g|x\""}' | sh
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