diff --git a/contrib/cleanup/tab2spaces.sh b/contrib/cleanup/tab2spaces.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1022be790
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/cleanup/tab2spaces.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Be sure to specify files instead of * when running the script.
+perl -p -i -e "s/\t/    /g" *
diff --git a/contrib/cleanup/whitespace.sh b/contrib/cleanup/whitespace.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a351e2535
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/cleanup/whitespace.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Be sure to specify files instead of * when running the script.
+perl -p -i -e "s/ +$//g" *