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expand - convert tabs to spaces
expand [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output. With no
FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long
options are mandatory for short options too.
- -i, --initial
- do not convert tabs
after non blanks
- -t, --tabs=NUMBER
- have tabs NUMBER characters apart, not
8
- -t, --tabs=LIST
- use comma separated list of explicit tab positions
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
Written by David MacKenzie.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There
is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
unexpand(1)
The
full documentation for expand is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info and expand programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info coreutils ’expand invocation’
should give you access to the complete
manual.
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