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git-stripspace:tldr:67496
The command git stripspace --comment-lines < ${filename}
is used to remove blank lines and comments from a file in the git repository.
Here's a breakdown of the command:
-
git stripspace
is a Git command used to remove unnecessary spaces and blank lines from text files. -
--comment-lines
is an option for thegit stripspace
command which specifically removes lines that start with a comment character (usually "#" or "//") in the file. -
< ${filename}
is used for input redirection. It takes the content of the file specified by the${filename}
variable and passes it as input to thegit stripspace
command.${filename}
represents the name of the file you want to process.
Thus, the command removes all blank lines and comments from the specified file using the git stripspace
command.