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)
Check Out this Related Man Page
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)
Hi there
Just wondered if someone could help me out
I have a file that has been delimited by tabs, ie
field1<tab>fiield2<tab>field3
Does anybody know a command that will convert tabs to commas throughout the entire file?
Note: there are a number of unpopulated fields in the file so... (6 Replies)
Hi,
i have a tab dilimeted file.The records are :header is having column names.I am facing the following issue :
I want to convert the spaces only for header file into "_" in the unix shell but the problem is that if i use sed command all the blank spaces are getting replaced by "_".
For... (3 Replies)
I'm new to bash and want to know a simple sed, awk, or grep script that will find all instances of 2 or more spaces and convert them to a single tab. Thanks for the help in advance. (1 Reply)
I am running a query with contains blank spaces in between in the output. But when I open and read the file in UNIX i am not able to cursor the balnk spaces instead it is moving like tabs. Please help
suppose my query -
Select ' '||text from tab1;
the cursor should move to 1st and... (1 Reply)
I am looking help in awk, quick overview. we will get feed from external system . The input file looks like below.
Detail Id Info Id Order Id STATUS Status Date FileDetail
99127942 819718 CMOG223481502 PR 04-17-2011 06:01:34PM... (7 Replies)
Hi! All
I am just wondering solution to use FS if file fields are separated by whitespace (one or more spaces ), tab and comma, How to use FS ?
finally I want to print all columns as tab separated
look at my file here tagged
130, US 121337 30.530 -58.900 1941 1 25 19.50 ... (5 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)
I thought I had this figured out but was wrong so am humbly asking for help.
The task is to add an additional column to FILE 1 based on records in FILE 2.
The key is in COLUMN 1 for FILE 1 and in COLUMN 1 OR COLUMN 2 for FILE 2.
I want to add the third column from FILE 2 to the beginning of... (8 Replies)
str contains tabs and multiple spaces
str="hello world. How are you?"
I want to check string start with hello world,
and my code is:
if ]world"* ]]; then
echo "found"
else
echo "not found"
fi
Not work
Other solution may work is to replace all tabs and... (4 Replies)