From 86b3532b4584355b85998fddf1db0d995109ff12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 21:21:52 +1200
Subject: Add stws(1)

---
 README.markdown |  2 ++
 bin/stws        | 11 +++++++++++
 man/man1/stws.1 | 11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 bin/stws
 create mode 100644 man/man1/stws.1

diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 95153945..e8efad5f 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ Installed by the `install-bin` target:
 *   `shb(1)` attempts to build shebang lines for scripts from `$PATH`.
 *   `spr(1)` posts its input to the sprunge.us pastebin.
 *   `stbl(1)` strips a trailing blank line from the files in its arguments.
+*   `stws(1)` strips trailing spaces from the ends of lines of the files in its
+    arguments.
 *   `sue(8)` execs `sudoedit(8)` as the owner of all the file arguments given,
     perhaps in cases where you may not necessarily have `root` `sudo(8)`
     privileges.
diff --git a/bin/stws b/bin/stws
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..1514a979
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/stws
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Strip trailing spaces on one or more files
+if [ "$#" -eq 0 ] ; then
+    printf >&2 'tstf: Need filenames\n'
+fi
+for fn ; do
+    ed -s -- "$fn" <<'EOF'
+g/  *$/ s/  *$//
+w
+EOF
+done
diff --git a/man/man1/stws.1 b/man/man1/stws.1
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..730d42aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man1/stws.1
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+.TH STWS 1 "August 2016" "Manual page for stws"
+.SH NAME
+.B stws
+\- strip trailing spaces from files
+.SH USAGE
+.B stws FILE1 [FILE2 ...]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Applies ed(1) to remove all trailing spaces at the end of lines, if present,
+from each of the given files.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>
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