git stripspace

Read text (e.g. commit messages, notes, tags, and branch descriptions) from stdin and clean it into the manner used by Git. More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-stripspace.

cat {{path/to/file}} | git stripspace

cat {{path/to/file}} | git stripspace --strip-comments

git stripspace --comment-lines < {{path/to/file}}