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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 specified 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:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report expand translation bugs to
<https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License
GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://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¶
Full documentation at:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/expand>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) expand invocation'
July 2018 | GNU coreutils 8.30 |