Re: [PATCH 1/1] lib: remove leading spaces before tabs

["Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>]

On 2021/6/9 18:30, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:21 AM Leizhen (ThunderTown)
> <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> wrote:
>> On 2021/6/9 13:15, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>>> On 2021/6/9 0:03, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 17:00 +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>>>>> On 2021/6/8 16:44, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 10:14 AM Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) Run the following command to find and remove the leading spaces before
>>>>>>>    tabs:
>>>>>>>    find lib/ -type f | xargs sed -r -i 's/^[ ]+\t/\t/'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hint for the future, try to use what Git provides, for example `git
>>>>>> ls-files -- lib/`.
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, thanks. I learned a new trick.
> 
>>>> For instance:
>>>>
>>>> $ git diff --stat lib
>>>> $ git ls-files lib/ | \
>>>>   xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --types=SPACE_BEFORE_TAB --fix-inplace
>>
>> I just tried it. It's too slow.
> 
> If checkpath accepts infinite positional arguments, then proper way of
> use (that's how I do with simple perl regexps) is to
> 
> scripts/checkpatch.pl --types=SPACE_BEFORE_TAB --fix-inplace -- $(git
> ls-files lib/)

Nice. It's a little more concise.

> 
> Seems like we have a shell lesson :-)
> 
>> The command I used earlier, removing the line start match "^", can also do that.
>>
>> git ls-files lib/ | xargs sed -r -i 's/[ ]+\t/\t/'
> 
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