Hi!
I'm using SunOS 5.7 w/ Bash 2.01.
Currently, I'm working on a script that will make it possible to find textfiles which match certain criteria. While I write this message, I had some brainfarts, found the answer myself :D and the question I had in mind is now no longer the question I... (3 Replies)
hi,
I have some 50 C files in which for indentation of code some devlopers used tabs, but we dont want any tab used for indentation.
I have following 2 need.
1) find tabs from all 50 files (which are in one directory )
2) replace them with 4 spaces.
Thanks
Rishi (6 Replies)
I am new to scripting and I needed to know if there would be an easy way to delete extra spaces in a text file. I have a file with three rows with 22 numbers each, but there is extra spaces between the numbers when it gets output by this program AFNI that I am using. What script would help delete... (2 Replies)
When formatting a script let's say for instance the following:
case ${choice} in
1)
vi ${tmp1}.tmp
# overwrite the tmp1 var with any user changes
cp ${tmp1}.tmp ${tmp1}
;;
... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am facing issues converting white spaces and tabs together in a file I am reading. Here is the command I am trying:
tr -s ' '@ | sort -t@ +1n filename
I guess the problem is that it is not converting the tabs to another delimiter. Also, I am supposed to accomplish this only using... (5 Replies)
I want my program to replace tabs with spaces.1tab=4spaces.When i write aa(tab)aaa(tab)(tab)a(tab) it must show me aaxxaaaxxxxxaxxx. I think that my program works corectly but when a write aaa(tab)a it must show aaaxa but it is aaaxxxxxa.Please for help!!! That is my code:
#include <stdio.h>
... (3 Replies)
hi buddies;
i have a file.txt:
Note: All the seperators are SPACE.
192.168.1.1
ParameterObject=1 Speech 1
ParameterObject=2 Speech 1
192.168.1.1
ParamFunction=1 UserID 1 (DEACTIVATED)
Sector=1,Device=2,Unit=3 DeviceId 1
192.168.1.1
FeederCable=2B ... (18 Replies)
Hi,
I'm looking for a command that replaces spaces/tabs with pipe symbol and store the result to the same file instead of routing it to another file.
infile
outfile
Thanks. (11 Replies)
I have a file of about 10k records and eace line is having an extra space of 5 byte at the end.. Iwant to remove the extra spaces at the end of each line.. Can someone please help me out.. I tried using sed command and its not working... can someone please help me out. (3 Replies)
I'm having trouble getting my vimrc to work the way I want it. For some reason after I hit enter it is creating tabs instead of spaces like I would expect. Here is an example of what I am talking about. $ = newline, ^I = tab. On the line of struct EDGETAG* q; I hit enter and it created a tab... (2 Replies)
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expand
EXPAND(1) User Commands EXPAND(1)NAME
expand - convert tabs to spaces
SYNOPSIS
expand [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
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=N
have tabs N characters apart, not 8
-t, --tabs=LIST
use comma separated list of tab positions The last specified position can be prefixed with '/' to specify a tab size to use after
the last explicitly specified tab stop. Also a prefix of '+' can be used to align remaining tab stops relative to the last speci-
fied tab stop instead of the first column
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report expand translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 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.
SEE ALSO unexpand(1)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/expand>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) expand invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 EXPAND(1)