I'm trying to run git stripspace
but the documentation is not helpfull.
It appears that git stripspaces
takes stdin
as its input and writes to stdout
but:
% git stripspace < myfile.txt > myfile.txt
deleted all the text in myfile.txt
I wish the documentation provided an invocation example. Does anyone have one?
The problem here is that you're redirecting from and to the same file. It wasn't GIT that did it. When you redirect stdout to a file, it first creates that file. Which in your case, created it empty (in other words, it overwrote your file).
Try changing your simple command, which is this:
git stripspace < myfile.txt > myfile.txt
to this:
git stripspace < myfile.txt > my-other-file.txt
and it should work just fine.