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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Difference between space and [[:space:]] in regular expression Post 302837265 by Yoda on Thursday 25th of July 2013 12:28:59 PM
Old 07-25-2013
Actually character class [:blank:] matches spaces and tabs.

Character class [:space:] matches spaces and tabs as well as newline, vertical tab, form feed, carriage return.

For further reference:

Character Classes and Bracket Expressions

POSIX Bracket Expressions
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UNEXPAND(1)							   User Commands						       UNEXPAND(1)

NAME
unexpand - convert spaces to tabs SYNOPSIS
unexpand [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Convert blanks in each FILE to tabs, 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. -a, --all convert all blanks, instead of just initial blanks --first-only convert only leading sequences of blanks (overrides -a) -t, --tabs=N have tabs N characters apart instead of 8 (enables -a) -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 unexpand 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
expand(1) Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/unexpand> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) unexpand invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 UNEXPAND(1)
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